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Essay On 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 built a large temple located on …show more content…

A rectangular colonnade connects with a 36 meter-high twin pylon or gateway, leading to the temple's inner sanctuary. It was built in around 200 years starting in 237 BC by Ptolemy III; the Horus temple is popular with the sculptures that cover the temple and its entrance that shows Ptolemy XII defeats his enemies. Of all the temple remains in Egypt, the Temple of Horus at Edfu is the most well-preserved and the only one we know to have been completed. Built from sandstone blocks the huge Ptolemaic temple was constructed over the site of a smaller earlier temple, oriented east to west, towards the river, there are also many views in the temple that shows the architectures work in ancient Egypt like the strange shape of champers, decorations in every corner of the temple, and the sculptures that shows kings and the slaves serving

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