There are buildings throughout the world that still use a simple construction for an entranceway that was used over several millennia by the ancient Egyptians in their buildings and temples. Of course, the modern counterparts have put to use all different kinds of materials that are available as a result of technological and enginerring advances and not the slabs of stone that Egypt’s masons and craftsmen employed. Other cultures and civilizations developed the more sophisticated entranceway that employed the rounded arch, but the innovation ("creative improvement") of the Egyptians was simply to place two massive slabs of sone several feet apart, and on top place a third massive stone slab that formed the passage. It is a rectangular passage primitive but functional, that people walk through that marks a stone gateway. What is this oldset of architectural innovations called?
What is this oldest of architectural innovations called?
post and lintel
October 27th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
cave painting
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October 27th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
post and lintel
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