page_title: History of construction
section_title: Ancient Egypt
hierarchical_section_title: History of construction / Iron Age construction / Ancient Egypt
caption_attribution_description: Čeština: Překresba části nástěnné malby z hrobky Rekhmira. English: Drawing of the part of wall painting in the tomb of Rekhmire.
context_page_description: The history of construction overlaps many other fields like structural engineering and relies on other branches of science like archaeology, history and architecture to investigate how the builders lived and recorded their accomplishments. Those fields allow us to analyse constructed buildings and other structures built since prehistory, the tools used and the different uses of building materials.
  History of building is evolving by different trends in time, marked by few key principles: durability of the materials used, the increasing of height and span, the degree of control exercised over the interior environment and finally the energy available to the construction process.
context_section_description: As opposed to the cultures of ancient Mesopotamia which built in brick, the pharaohs of Egypt built huge structures in stone. The arid climate has preserved much of the ancient buildings.
caption: A copy of a wall painting in the tomb of Rekhmire between 1550 and 1292 BC.
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