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Stonehenge Salisbury, England 2900-1400 BC Prehistoric Megalith, solstices, mortise, tenon, lintel, trilithon |
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White Temple and Ziggurat Uruk, Sumer 3500-3000 BC Sumerian |
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Ziggurat of King Urnammu Ur, Sumer 2100 BC (Reconstructed 1970s) Sumerian |
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Mastabas Giza, Egypt 3400-2900 BC Old Kingdom Royal court burial, two doors, buried way down |
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Stepped Pyramid of Zoser Saqqara, Egypt 2650 BC Old Kingdom No temple (diff from Ziggurat), symbolic steps |
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Pyramids Giza, Egypt 2500 BC Old Kingdom Mycerinos, Chefren, Cheops Sacred geometry, orientation |
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Mortuary Temple of King Mentuhotep Upper Egypt 2000 BC Middle Kingdom Pyramid in middle |
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Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut Upper Egypt 1475 BC New Kingdom Fluted columns with covetto, Hephestus |
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Temple of Amun Karnak 1550-1300 BC New Kingdom Hypostyle hall, clerestory, pylon, papyrus capital, boat room |
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Tell El-Amarna 1350 BC New Kingdom Akhenaten, monotheistic, sun god, abandoned |
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Temple of Ramesses II Abu Simbel 1250 BC New Kingdom Giant statues, moved, light shines in |
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Palace of Minos Knossos, Crete 1700-1400 BC Minoan Labyrinth, red columns |
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Throne Room Knossos, Crete 1700-1400 BC Minoan Throne on side of room over opening, paintings, realistic |
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Palace of Mycenae Mycenae 1300 BC Mycenaean Cyclopean masonry |
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Lion's Gate Mycenae 1300 BC Mycenaean Cyclopean, Corbelling, Minoan column |
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Treasury of Atreus Mycenae 1330 BC Mycenaean Corbelling, Beehive tomb, Dromos, Agamemnon |
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Palace of Tiryns Tiryns 1300 BC Mycenaean Cyclopean masonry |
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King's Megaron Mycenae 1300 BC Mycenaean Angle, Throne on side, hole in ceiling, minoan columns |
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Temple of Solomon Jerusalem, Israel 950 BC (Rebuilt 515 BC) Israelite Temple mount, arc, solomonic columns, holy of holies, destroyed |
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CItadel of Sargon II Khorsabad, Assyria 725 BC Assyrian Stepped pyramid, giant winged bull figures |
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Ziggurat of Marduk (Tower of Babel) Babylon 575 BC Babylonian Never completed, bible, temple on summit |
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Ishtar Gate Babylon 575 BC Babylonian Lions and bulls, blue, gate |
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Fortress, Palace, Gardens Ninevah 550 BC Babylonian Irrigation, reservoir, screws |
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Royal Audience Hall of Darius Persepolis, Persia 525 BC Persian Big open area |
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Xerxes Hall of 100 Columns Persepolis 500 BC Persian 100 columns Horse head capitals |
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Temple of Hera Olympia 625 BC Archaic Short walls, spur walls, long and narrow |
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Temenos Olympia 525 BC Archaic Sacred zone, approach from the west, walls, treasuries |
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Temple of Hera I Paestum, Italy 525 BC Archaic Odd numbered across front, survived, entasis, triglyphs, metope, 3 in antis, adetum, egyptian doorways |
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Temple of Athena Paestum, Italy, 525 BC Archaic Ground slopes up, STAIRS, Ionic pronaus, combination of doric and ionic, Coffers |
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Temple C Selinus, Italy 525 BC Archaic Contemporary of Hera, corner contraction |
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Temple G Selinus, Italy 425 BC Archaic Colossal temple, unfinished, Archaic-Classical-Carthaginian, collapsed |
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Temple of Zeus Akragas, Italy 425 BC Archaic Engaged half-columns, telemons hold tabliture |
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Temple of Hera II Paestum, Italy 460 BC Classical Found intact, optical refinements, 2 stories, clerestory, sandstone, stairs, standardized |
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Temple of Concord Akragas, Italy 425 BC Classical Original plaster, 1 room, pronaos, epistadomos, church in middle ages |
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Temple of Segesta Segesta, Sicily 425 BC Classical On gorge, approached from front, Brought in greek, unfinished, Carthaginians, never fluted, manmade site |
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Athens Organic City Planning Build whatever wherever, roads from agora, athenaic procession |
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Miletus Square Blocks 479 BC Hippodamus, square, agora in center |
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Paestum Per Strigas N/S road called villa sakra |
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Temple of Hephestus Athens 425 BC Classical Marble, Epistadimos, approach from front, corner contraction |
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Parthenon Athens 425 BC Classical All optical refinements, built on earlier temple, Athena, approach in perspective view, walls jut out, doric and ionic, staircases in wall, procession on inside, pediment, most significant |
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Propyleum Athens 425 BC Classical Space in middle, slanted, same on front and back, galleries, ionic but doric facade |
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Temple of Athena Nike Athens 425 BC Classical Baby temple, square, three steps, approach from gallery |
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Erechtheum Athens 425 BC Classical Multiple stories, porch of maidens, lowest of any temple, ionic portico, three step architrave, statues guarding tombs, rebuilt |
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Temple of Apollo Bassae 425 BC Classical NORTH SOUTH BABY, no optical refinements, one Corinthian column LOST FOREVER IN A MYSTERIOUS SHIPWRECK |
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Tholos Epidauros 350 BC Hellenistic Doric exterior, corninthian inside, round |
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Theater Epidauros 350 BC Hellenistic Orchestra in middle, chorus stage, cabia seating, parodos walkway |
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Mausoleum Halikarnassos, Ionian Coast 350 BC Hellenistic Square, masonry base, colonnade, chariot on top, doesn't exist |
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Monument of Lysicrates Athens 350 BC Hellenistic First classical structure with corinthian on outside, hollow, commemorate theater |
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Temple of Apollo Didyma, Ionian Coast 250 BC Hellenistic Ionic, Colossal, double peristyle, huge columns, stairs, temple in temple, sunken immediately |
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Altar Pergamon, Ionian Coast 150 BC Hellenistic Hillside city, Galleries on side, lots of steps, in Germany now, Ionic |
