The architecture of the pharaoh represents some of the most impressive creative work ever ploduced in Egyptian art and yet it has never been completely assessec This volume is a singularly complete record of the architecture of the pharaohs and its sphere of influence ranging from 3000 B.C. to the Egyptian style of today, from the Sudan to the Mediterranean, and from simple clay brick buildings to monumental pyramids - a very specia kind of journey through Egypt.

 7 INTRODUCTION

  Basic Architectural Forms in Ancient

  Egypt

23 HOUSES FOR THE DEAD AND STAIRWAYSTO HEAVEN

  Tomb Architecture of the Early Perio

45 BUILDING FOR THE LIFE TO COMEOld Kingdom Pyramids

73 THE LOST CLASSICAL PERIOD

  Architecture of the Middle Kingdom

93 A STATE BUILT OF STONE

  Temples to the Gods in the New Kingdom

127 CASTLES OF ETERNITY

  Temples of the Dead and Tomb Architecture of the New Kingdom

167 THE COSMOS IN STONE

  From the Delta to Sudan

191  LATE FLOWERING

  Temples of the Ptolemaic and Roman Period in Upper Egypt

225 EPILOGUE

  Egyptian Influence in the West

230 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

233 GLOSSARY

234 BIBLIOGRAPHY