# Ancient Architecture

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Category: Architecture
Slides: 30
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:17:19.803Z
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## Summary

Architecture begins not with shelter but with ceremony. The first monumental buildings predate agriculture; they predate writing; in some cases they predate the wheel. Key sections include: Ancient Architecture.; Opening Before the city.; Chapter I What counts as ancient.; Chapter II Göbekli Tepe.; Chapter III Çatalhöyük.; Chapter IV Mud, brick, the city.; Chapter V Mastaba to step pyramid.; Chapter VI The Great Pyramid.; Chapter VII The temple as forest.; Chapter VIII Mohenjo-daro and Harappa..

## Slide Outline

1. Ancient Architecture.
2. Opening Before the city.
3. Chapter I What counts as ancient.
4. Chapter II Göbekli Tepe.
5. Chapter III Çatalhöyük.
6. Chapter IV Mud, brick, the city.
7. Chapter V Mastaba to step pyramid.
8. Chapter VI The Great Pyramid.
9. Chapter VII The temple as forest.
10. Chapter VIII Mohenjo-daro and Harappa.
11. Chapter IX Stonehenge.
12. Chapter X Newgrange and the dolmens.
13. Chapter XI The Minoan palace.
14. Chapter XII Megaron, Lion Gate, tholos.
15. Chapter XIII Hattusa.
16. Chapter XIV The first New World cities.
17. Chapter XV Stone, brick, wood, mud.
18. Chapter XVI Without the wheel, without the pulley.
19. Chapter XVII Corbel, false arch, true arch.
20. Chapter XVIII Persepolis.
21. Chapter XIX Pharaoh's recipe.
22. Chapter XX Architecture as ritual.
23. Chapter XXI Aligned to the heavens.
24. Chapter XXII Collapse, and what survived.
25. Chapter XXIII Caral and the Norte Chico.
26. Chapter XXIV What ancient architecture gave us.
27. Chapter XXV For the shelf.
28. Chapter XXVI Watch & read.
29. Chapter XXVII The argument of stones.
30. Colophon

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