Architecture In Ancient Egyptian Architecture

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The architecture in ancient Egypt is one of the largest and most beautiful civilizations in the whole history according to the big monuments and famous places like temples, pyramids. And in this essay I’ll be talking about the history of the architecture in ancient Egypt and how they built some of the large monuments. To begin with, in ancient Egypt they hadn’t much wood for building so they used sun-baked mud bricks and stones, also they used the stones to build tombs and temples; in addition, they used bricks to build castles and royal palaces; but, before they put any stone or brick they used granite as a carcass for building. Furthermore, ancient Egyptians used mud to build their houses after collecting it from the Nile River and putting the mud into molds and dry it by using the sun. To continue with, the architectures in ancient Egypt made a big monumental temple by the Nile River in a city called nowadays Luxor city. It covers more …show more content…

The process of building the pyramids is very complicated, workers used to move rocks for a 1,000 kilo meters in rafts by the Nile river and there was a high path for the workers to reach the construction site in Giza easily, then they used sleds to roll the stones reaching the pyramids. After they finished the four sides foundations, they started to put stones in smaller areas but higher from the ground until they reached the top, actually they used heavy stones to build the pyramids that’s why they created some smart methods to carry the stones along the pyramids and one of these ways was by rolling them along with some logs. The archaeologists recently discovered that the people who built the pyramids were paid workers not

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