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Hieroglyphics

Egyptian writing that involved using pictures to represent words.

Mastaba

An Egyptian tomb with a flat top and sloping sides, built over a grave shaft

Pyramid

Huge, triangular shaped burial tombs of Egyptian pharaohs built during the Old Kingdom

Ben-Ben

a pyramidal shaped stone that is a fetish of the sun god Re, prototype for the pyramid

The Pyramid texts

Text on walls of pyramid that were used to assist the king into the afterlife (spells)

Mortuary Temple

temple where the Egyptians praised their kings that died and offered food and objects

Sphinx

It was the symbol for protection and was a composite of a human head and a lion's body

Diorite

very hard black rock

Colonnades

A series of columns placed side by side to support a roof or a series of arches

Clerestory

A row of windows in the upper part of a wall.

Pylon

The wide entrance gateway of an Egyptian temple, characterized by its sloping walls

Hypostyle

a hall with a roof supported by columns

Ka

In ancient Egypt, the immortal human life force.

Entabulature

a horizontal, continuous lintel on a building supported by columns or a wall

Engaged Column

A column that is not freestanding but attached to a wall

Causeway

A raised roadway over a body of water

Atlantids

male figure that functions as a supporting column

Hierarchical scale

The representation of more important figures as larger than less important ones

Canon

That which has been accepted as authentic