History of Architecture 1

Monumental gateway to the temple consisting of slanting walls flanking the entrance portal

• Obelisks

• Pylons

• Rock-cut or Rock-Hewn Tombs

• Mastabas

Earthen burial mounds containing upright and lintel stones forming chambers for consecutive burials for several to a hundred persons

• Cromlech

• Dolmen

• Tumuli

• Megalith

Burial tomb consisting of 3 or more upright stones and one or more capstone

• Dolmen

• Cromlech

• Tumuli

• Menhir

Enclosure formed by huge stones panted in the grave in a circle

• Tumuli

• Menhir

• Dolmen

• Cromlech

The tomb of the pharaohs in Egyptian architecture

• Pyramid

• Dolmen

• Menhir

• Cromlech

Architect of The Great Pyramid at Giza

• Cheops

• Rameses I

• Senusret I

• Imhotep

The beginner of the great hypostyle hall at Karnak and the founder of the 19th dynasty

• Cheops

• Rameses I

• Senusret I

• Imhotep

Erected the earliest known obelisk at Heliopolis

• Cheops

• Rameses I

• Senusret I

• Imhotep

The world's first large-scale monument in stone

• Step Pyramid of Zoser

• Pyramid of Khufu

• Sarcophagus

• Crypt

Highest sloped pyramid in Giza

• Pyramid of Khufu

• Pyramid of Chephren

• Pyramid of Mykerinus

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