Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 98
sian monarch was defeated byAlexander the Great, which brought Egypt under theGreek rule. At the death of Alexander Egypt wasgoverned by the Macedonian kings, the Ptolemies, from330 to 30 B.C. After the Roman wars and the death ofCleopatra, Egypt found itself a Roman province. In A.D. 638 the Arabs… … tA- OO o C3 In O shape from the prehistoric grave mounds. Although elabo-rately and ingeniously contrived for the concealment ofthe remains of the kings, and are stupendous monumentsof building skill, they are not examples of architecture inthe true sense of the word. Perhaps the earliest examples…
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