The New Kingdom of ancient Egypt was a golden age of architecture and art. A variety of factors combined to make the New Kingdom one of the most creative cultures of the ancient world. The empire ...

Zigzag walls were used in ancient Egyptian architecture, mainly toward the end of the 18th Dynasty. (Photo by Mahmoud Khaled) An area with well-arranged units is “fenced in by a zigzag wall ...

the 197-foot-tall structure that serves as the burial place of its namesake pharaoh represented a revolutionary advance in Egyptian architecture when it was designed by Imhotep (an Egyptian ...

“architecture makes the difference”, as 2016 Venice Biennale director Alejandro Aravena puts it. The Egyptian pavilion commissioned and curated by Architect Ahmad Hilal with a team composed of ...

Therefore, when Americans have drawn from the Egyptian aesthetic for architecture and design, they’ve done so sparingly and largely in funerary and prison architecture. Richmond has a number ...

as he studied how indigenous Egyptian architecture worked with its environment to maximise light and ventilation inside homes. In 1945 he was commissioned by the Department of Antiquities to ...

military might and monumental architecture. Ramses II, the second-longest ruling pharaoh in Ancient Egypt, reigned from 1279 to 1213 B.C., a period marking the final peak of Egypt’s military power.