ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE & REMARKABLE MONUMENTS

 

Probably the most astonishing aspect of Ancient Egyptian Civilisation are the gigantic stone buildings - a true miracle in architecture. Despite deep antiquity and honest technological level, they serve as an absolute proof of capability what owned Ancient Egyptian society and for deep authority, what obtained the ruling class over the lower social strata. But these splendid archaeological objects could not be completed withouth sofisticated knowledge of ancient architects, mathematicians, administrators drawing the right direction for these unvelievable hudge efforts of a whole culture. Due their honest service, our world can enjoy with deep respect to the piramids, temples, ornamented tombs and other monuments in different parts of this country.

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE & REMARKABLE MONUMENTS

I. Ancient Egyptian Architecture: Basic Works

1. General Studies

2.1. Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

2.2. The Great Pyramids

3. Ancient Egyptian Temples (in general)

4.1. Ancient Egyptian Tombs (in general)

4.2. Different royal tombs

4.3. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Cemeteries

4.4. Old Kingdom Cemeteries

4.5. New Kingdom Cemeteries

4.6. Third Intermediate Period and Late Kingdom cemeteries

4.7. Ptolemaic and Roman age cemeteries

5. Ancient Egyptian fortifications

6. Ancient Egyptian houses

7. Ancient Egyptian obelisks

II. Remarcable Monuments

1. Giza

1.1. The Great Pyramids

1.2. The Great Sphinx.

1.3. The Tombs in Private Necropolis at Giza

1.4. Giza after the Old Kingdom

2. Saqqara

2.1.1. Saqqara during the Old Kingdom: Pyramids and royal tombs

2.1.2. Saqqara during the Old Kingdom: Private necropolis

2.2. Saqqara before and after the Old Kingdom

3. Memphis

4. Abusir

5. Dahshur

6. Lisht and El-Saf

7. Naga ed Deir

8. Abydos

9. Dendera

10. Heracleopolis/ Hermopolis area (Asyut/ Minya)

11. Beni Hassan

12. Naqada & Armant

13.Tel El Amarna

14. Esna & El Kab

15. Edfu area

16. Aswan area

17.1. The Nile Delta

17.2. Tanis

18. Fayum & Western Oases

19. Eastern Desert

20. Sinai and Levant

21. Second Cataract area & Nubia

22. El-Kuru, Nuri, Meroe, Gebel Barkal

23. Theban Archaeological Complex:

23.1. Thebes in general

23.2. Karnak

23.3. Luxor

23.4. Medinet Habu

23.5. Deir El Bahri

23.6. Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens

23.7. Private tombs in the Theban Necropolis

23.8. Deir el Medina

23.9. Gourna

23.10. Thebes before and after the New Kingdom