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Catal Huyuk, Anatolia. Mesopotamia. Neolithic.
mud-brick. never plundered or flooded.
6000 BCE
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Jericho, Jordan. Mesopotamia. Neolithic.
stone. lime-plaster floor + walls.
7000 BCE
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Dolmen Tomb, Carnac Brittany. Neolithic
post+lintel. trabeated construction. covered with earth mound.
1500 BCE
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Stonehenge, Salisbury England. Neolithic.
cromlech. 5 trilithon. sandstones. blue stones small inner circle. curved lintel. trabeated.
2000 BCE
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Stepped Pyramid of Zoser, Saqqara. Old Kingdom.
stone.
2700 BCE
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Great Pyramids of Giza. Old Kingdom.
Great Sphinx. God Re-Harakhte.
ashlar masonry. sandstone +limestone.
2500 BCE
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Rock Cut Tomb of Beni Hasan. Middle Kingdom.
colonaded portico. colomnar hall. lotus form interior. proto-doric.
2000 BCE
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Mortuary Temple of Mentuotep. Middle Kingdom.
collonaded terraces.
2000 BCE
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Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el Bahari. New Kingdom.
Architect Senmut.
linear progression of construction. gaurdian sphinx. collonaded vestibules + courts. darkened interiors.
1700 BCE
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Hypostyle Hall of Seti I + Ramses II, Temple of Amun, Karnak. New Kingdom.
side columns = closed papyrus buds
center columns = open papyrus flowers
reliefs = polychromed figures + hyroglyphs
Clerestory.
1300 BCE
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Gudea with Tablet. Sumerian.
2150 BCE
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Ziggurat at Ur. Summerian.
2150 BCE
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Citadel of Sargon II, Khorsabad. Assyrian.
8th BCE
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Ishtar Gate. Babylonian.
6th BCE
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Palace of Persepolis. Persian.
6th BCE
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Palace of Knossos. Minoan.
1500 BCE
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Citadel at Tiryns. Cyclopean Walls, Lion Gate, Beehive Tomb. Mycenae. Mycenaean.
1200 BCE
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Basilica at Paestum. Archaic Greek.
6th BCE
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Treasury of the Siphnians, Delphi. Archaic Greek.
6th BCE
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Temple of Poseidon, Paestum. Classical Greek.
5th BCE
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Temple of Concord, Agrigento. Classical Greek.
5th BCE
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Agora & Acropolis of Athens. Parthenon, Temple of Athena Nike, Erechtheum, Propylea. Classical Greek
5th BCE
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Sancturary of Apollo, Delphi. Classical Greek.
5th BCE
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Temple of Hephaestos, Athens. Classical Greek.
5th BCE
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Temple of Apollo, Bassae. Classical Greek.
5th BCE
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Choragic Monument of Lysikrates. Late Classical.
4th BCE
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Theatre of Epidaurus. Late Classical.
4th BCE
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