Short articles on the history of architecture. This week: some of the earliest civilizations known to mankind: Megaliths, Mesopotamia, and Ancient Egypt.

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 Egyptian influence on British architecture can been seen all over the UK, including Blickling Hall stately home in the village of Blickling in Norfolk, which houses a wonderful Egyptian mausoleum.

Egyptian camel owners wait for tourists outside the pyramids on the Giza Plateau, March 2017. Mohamed El-Shahed/AFP/Getty Images. The theory is enticing, but there is still much that is unknown ...

Inside the courtyard, the mission found two false doors, two offering tables, pottery vessels, poorly preserved coffins, and skeletal remains. A burial well within contained dilapidated wooden coffins ...

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But it does seem almost impossible not to think about reevaluating an exhibition now at REDCAT, “Decolonizing Architecture,” in light of the events in Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan and elsewhere.

Perhaps no Egyptian form is more ubiquitous in Richmond than obelisks, four-sided upright pillars that taper to form pyramids at the top. They appear in almost every old cemetery here.

An exhibition by pioneer architecture and tutor Essam Safi El-Din traces Egypt's folk architecture. Last week, the National Organization For Urban Harmony (NOUH), in Collaboration with the House ...

These sanctuaries do not draw from contemporaneous Egyptian art and architecture, but rather from Greek stereotypes about Egypt and the Nile River. Isis’ Greek temples, I argue, allowed Greek devotees ...