The architecture of the pharaohs represents some of the most impressive creative work ever produced in Egyptian art and yet it has never been completely assessed. 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 special kind of journey through Egypt.

The architecture of the pharaohs represents some of the most impressive creative work ever produced in Egyptian art and yet it has never been completely assessed. 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 special kind of journey through Egypt.

INTRODUCTION

Basic Architectural Forms in Ancient

Egypt

HOUSES FOR THE DEAD AND STAIRWAYS

TO HEAVEN

Tomb Architecture of the Early Perioc

BUILDING FOR THE LIFE TO COME

Old Kingdom Pyramids

THE LOST CLASSICAL PERIOD

Architecture of the Middle Kingdom

A STATE BUILT OF STONE

Temples to the Gods in the New

Kingdom

CASTLES OF ETERNITY

Temples of the Dead and Tomb

Architecture of the New Kingdom

THE COSMOS IN STONE

From the Delta to Sudan

LATE FLOWERING

Temples of the Ptolemaic and

Roman Period in Upper Egypt

EPILOGUE

Egyptian Influence in the West

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND CREDITS