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Egypt : from prehistory to the Romans / Dietrich Wildung ; photographs, Anne and Henri Stierlin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: [Taschen's world architecture]Publication details: Köln ; London : Taschen, c2004.Description: 237 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps, col. plans ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 9783822812211:
  • 3822812218
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 722.2
Contents:
Introduction - Basic architectural forms in ancient Egypt -- houses for the dead and stairways to heaven -- Building for the life to come -- The lost classical period -- A state built of stone -- Castles of eternity -- The cosmos in stone -- Late flowering -- Epilogue - Eygptian influence in the west.

This translation originally published : 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 234) and index.

Introduction - Basic architectural forms in ancient Egypt -- houses for the dead and stairways to heaven -- Building for the life to come -- The lost classical period -- A state built of stone -- Castles of eternity -- The cosmos in stone -- Late flowering -- Epilogue - Eygptian influence in the west.

Translated from the German.

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