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The well preserved Temple of Isis from Philae (Egypt), with a pylon (a monumental gate of an Egyptian temple)ĭue to the scarcity of wood, the two predominant building materials used in ancient Egypt were sun-baked mud brick and stone, mainly limestone, but also sandstone and granite in considerable quantities. Columns were typically adorned with capitals decorated to resemble plants important to Egyptian civilization, such as the papyrus plant.Īncient Egyptian architectural motifs have influenced architecture elsewhere, reaching the wider world first during the Orientalizing period and again during the nineteenth-century Egyptomania. Many buildings were aligned astronomically. Monumental buildings were built using the post and lintel method of construction. Most buildings were built of locally available mud brick and limestone by levied workers. The best known example of ancient Egyptian architecture are the Egyptian pyramids, while excavated temples, palaces, tombs, and fortresses have also been studied. Likewise, ancient Egyptian architecture is not one style, but a set of styles differing over time but with some commonalities. Spanning over three thousand years, ancient Egypt was not one stable civilization but in constant change and upheaval, commonly split into periods by historians.
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