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870 AD Ahmad ibn Tulun Palace at al-Qatta'i in Old Cairo. [9] 12th century AD Fatimid Great Palaces (the Great Eastern Palace and the Western Palace) around the Bayn al-Qasrayn area in Historic Cairo. [10] [11] 12th century Cairo Citadel, an Ayyubid dynasty palace [12] 13th century Sultan al-Salih palace in Rhoda Island in Nile in Cairo. [13] [14]
The best known example of ancient Egyptian architecture are the Egyptian pyramids and Sphinx, while excavated temples, palaces, tombs, and fortresses have also been studied. Most buildings were built of locally available mud brick and limestone by paid laborers and craftsmen.
Trajan's Kiosk at Philae (c. 100 AD), Roman period [17]. During the Greco-Roman period of Egypt (332 BC–395 AD), [12] when Egypt was ruled by the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty and then the Roman Empire, Egyptian architecture underwent significant changes due to the influence of Greek architecture.
It was the seat of government in Egypt and the residence of its rulers for nearly 700 years from the 13th century until the construction of Abdeen Palace in the 19th century. Its location on a promontory of the Mokattam hills near the center of Cairo commands a strategic position overlooking the city and dominating its skyline.
Polychrome glass vase from Malkata. Walters Art Museum.The city had an extensive glass industry, the first in Egypt. There are various structures in the desert, consisting of several residential palaces, a temple of Amun, a festival hall, elite villas, houses for the relatives of the royal family, apartments for attendants, and a desert altar termed the Kom al-Samak, all of which were ...
Abdeen District is the home of Abdeen Palace (Arabic: قصر عابدين), a 19th-century Cairo palace built by Khedive Ismail and served as the Egyptian royal household's primary official residence from 1874 until the July Revolution in 1952. [1] Since then it has been of the presidential palaces. [1]
Carved wooden panel with images of animals and humans, believed to have belonged to a door in one of the Fatimid palaces. (On display at the Louvre.). The Great Palaces of the Fatimid Caliphs (or Great Fatimid Palaces, among other name variants) were a vast and lavish palace complex built in the late 10th century in Cairo, Egypt, to house the Fatimid caliphs, their households, and the ...
In periods when Egypt dominated Nubia, Egyptian rulers also built temples there, as far south as Jebel Barkal. [82] Most Egyptian towns had a temple, [83] but in some cases, as with mortuary temples or the temples in Nubia, the temple was a new foundation on previously empty land. [30]