Styles Of Roofs Used In Ancient Egypt

The eaves were long enough that they could protect the mud bricks from the rain.

Styles of roofs used in ancient egypt.

The ancient egyptian first lived in reed houses and later switched to unbaked mud brick which was used even on palaces. Join us to explore the roofs of ancient civilizations including greek chinese persian and egyptian. In ancient egypt trees were scarce so wood was not widely used as a building material. Ancient egyptian construction and architecture.

The two principal building materials used in ancient egypt were unbaked mud brick and stone. The prehistoric greeks used thatch roofs with overhanging eaves supported by dried clay bricks. Mastabas were the standard type of tomb in the earliest dynasties. Mud brick remained the domestic material used even for royal palaces.

However ancient egyptian architecture did not become what we think of today until roughly 2649 bce structures that survived the old kingdom which lasted until about 2150 bce include mastabas the great pyramids and the great sphinx all of these structures were built from stone. Ancient egypt itself dates back to roughly 3150 bce. From the old kingdom onward stone was generally reserved for tombs and temples while bricks were used even for royal palaces fortresses the walls of temple precincts and. From the old kingdom onward stone was generally used for tombs the eternal dwellings of the dead and for temples the eternal houses of the gods.

History of ancient egyptian architecture. These flat roofed rectangular superstructures had sides constructed at first from mud brick and later of stone in the form of paneled niches painted white and decorated with elaborate matting designs. Due to the scarcity of wood the two predominant building materials used in ancient egypt were sun baked mud brick and stone mainly limestone but also sandstone and granite in considerable quantities.