EGYPTIAN BUILDINGS

THE BEGINNING OF ARCHITECTURE

COLUMNS

TEMPLE OF ISIS - 285BC

STONE FIGURESAlso scattered throughout Egypt are stone figures. These figures could look like a tiger, a king, and eagle, or maybe even a mixture of both. Perhaps the best know stone figure of them all is the Sphinx. It is a figure of a kings head who is wearing the striped headcloth (nemes). His body is that of a lion.

TEMPLES

KARNAK

STATUES AND MONUMENTS

Also scattered throughout Egypt are stone figures. These figures could look like a tiger, a king, and eagle, or maybe even a mixture of both. Perhaps the best known stone figure of them all is the Sphinx.

THEBES -Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut (18th Dynasty, B.C. 1490-1468

MODERN