Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World
brick huts. Each hut, or room, opened onto a central court- yard where most of the home’s activities took place. Kush was founde ...
massive sort used in the Great Pyramid but were smaller than a human being; the Egyptians were experimenting with the stones as ...
Wooden scaff olding would eventually be built to give sculp- tors and painters access to the outer walls. In the case of the pyr ...
ginning around 2700 b.c.e. Mesopotamians began manu- facturing plano-convex bricks. A mold would give a brick a fl at bottom and ...
which still stands. Its mud dome was eventually blanketed by bricks without the use of mortar. Although it is known that Indians ...
fl ooding season inland or the annual high tide near the sea. Even during the late Shang Dynasty, builders used primar- ily ston ...
(at settlements such as Százhalombatta Földvár in Hungary) and elsewhere throughout the region. Wonderful preservation of buildi ...
Th e buildings of the Athenian Acropolis are the most famous representatives of Classical Greek architecture. Th ey suggest an a ...
century b.c.e. but had been well known long before then. Workers would raise blocks slightly with wooden levers, place wooden su ...
lic buildings, displayed fresco paintings of mythological or pastoral scenes or of more utilitarian pictures, giving visitors a ...
layer of plaster and faced with stone. Teotihuacán apartment complexes, built on top of raised platforms, were constructed out o ...
163 C ▶ calendars and clocks introduction An old proverb defi nes the diff erence between ancient and modern life by saying th ...
expertise in astronomy, for the progression of days, months, seasons, and years represents the movement and rotation of the eart ...
stick placed in the ground. When the sun rises, the stick casts a shadow that points toward the west. As the sun rises higher in ...
research on ancient Egyptian timekeeping is characterized by a proliferation of postulated calendars. Th en again, there is no c ...
Nippur came to be those most commonly used. Th e astrologi- cal Mul.Apin tablets, which date to this period, refer to the interc ...
plant and harvest their crops. Both the Chinese and Hindu calendars are still used today. Th e Chinese calendar was supposedly i ...
people put them in larger containers of water and they grad- ually fi lled and sank. One of the earliest water clocks discovered ...
Gauls adapted the system to their own uses, but they renamed the months and the days of the week aft er their own gods. Ancient ...
period was simply named by the consecutive numbers, from the 11th to the 19th, and the fi nal 9 or 10 days were counted in rever ...
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