what kind of architecture is being  built at the time of akhenaten?
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It was during the Amarna period.
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After the Hittites came to power, they took control of much of Anatolia and their first kingdom was in an area called Nesa, near Kultepe. The first capital of the Hittite Empire was at a place called Kushshar or Kussara, which has not yet been located. The earliest king mentioned in the royal archives of Hattusas was King Anittas, who began the policy of expansion. He took the area called Nesa, then Hattusas. He then made the old city of Boghazkoy the capital, and the name was changed to Hattusas. Later, for reasons not made clear, this king Anittas transferred the government to Kultepe, near Kayseri, and Hattusas was declared accursed and destroyed.
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Akhenaten was the egyptian pharoah who invented the idea of a single god. Before that people believed in multiple gods.\nAfter his death his ideas were discredited and people went back to their old beliefs.\nAs he lived and died before moses it is possible that this could have been an influence on moses' assertion of a single god even though his fellow jews did not believe that as the incident with the golden calf demonstrated
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please mention about which monument u want this infomation.there are a number of monuments ancient as well as modern so for which do u want?
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The ancient Egyptians were perfectly capable of using the basic mathematics necessary for the construction and layout of most pyramids. Despite the superb accuracy of the layout and plan, this was not impossible for them to achieve, nor did it require calculus. While no mathematical texts from the Old Kingdom survive, texts from the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period demonstrate a clear familiarity on the part of the Egyptians with basic arithmetic, geometry, and trigonometry.\n\nThere is absolutely no evidence that alien help was needed to construct the pyramids, which were intended as tombs for Egyptian kings.\nSome of the best evidence for human responsibility, and specifically Egyptian human responsibility dating to the 4th Dynasty, for the construction of pyramids comes from the site of Giza itself. Giza is the place most people think of when they think of Egyptian pyramids, though there are numerous pyramids in other areas of Egypt and Nubia and the Giza pyramids are by no means the earliest pyramids constructed in Egypt.\nAlso of significance are a number of inscriptions associated with the so-called "Great Pyramid" of Khafre at Giza. One of the inscriptions on a stone block making up the pyramid gives the name and regnal year of Khafre. Others bear the names given to crews of workmen responsible for moving the stone blocks into place. At least one of these inscriptions is located in an area almost impossible to reach - frequently the inscription is examined using a mirror - thus making it highly unlikely that it was a later addition.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe pyramid is thought to have developed out of the mastaba tomb. Mastaba is an Arabic word, meaning bench, which was applied to the flat-topped, slope sided superstructures of tombs. The pyramid is also thought to be associated with solar worship and the "ben-ben" stone which played a major role in sun worship and was vaguely pyramid shaped.\n\nIn the 3rd Dynasty, several mastabas were stacked forming the Step Pyramid of King Djoser. By the 4th Dynasty in the reign of Snefru attempts at building a true pyramid were underway. The pyramids of the 4th and 5th Dynasties, including those at Giza, essentially reflect the further refinement of the pyramid, the chambers within it, and the associated temple complexes. Eventually the standard style was an orientation of east to west (significant in Egyptian religion), with a pyramid temple, located directly on the east side of the pyramid, and a causeway leading to the "valley temple" located near the Nile at the edge of the cultivation.\nWhile it is accepted by reputable Egyptologists that pyramids served as burials for kings, the exact details of the theology behind them remains unclear. One idea, popularized I believe by Dr. Mark Lehner, one of the foremost experts on Egyptian pyramids, is that pyramids served as "resurrection machines" providing all the necessary means for eternal life with the gods for the dead king.\nIn the late 5th Dynasty in the Pyramid of Unas at Saqqara, we have the first appearance of formal texts within the pyramid itself - the appropriately-named Pyramid Texts. These texts are somewhat esoteric and are essentially a collection of spells, stories, and guides relating to the Underworld. Initially these texts were limited to royalty. In succeeding pyramids, elements of the Pyramid Texts were included in the "Coffin Texts" of the First Intermediate and Middle Kingdom and in the "Book of the Dead" of the New Kingdom - texts available to a broad spectrum of society.\n\nPyramid construction continued in the Middle Kingdom - again limited to royalty, but not on the grand scale of the Old Kingdom. The last known royal pyramids located in Egypt are that of King Ahmose, founder of the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom (ca. 1550 BCE) and the pyramid-cenotaph constructed for his grandmother, Queen Tetisheri. Both are located at Abydos.\n\nIn the New Kin
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Check this site:\nhttp://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=ancienthistory&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.activemind.com%2FMysterious%2FTopics%2FAtlantis%2Findex.html
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Great Pyramid of Giza, 2550 BC, Egyptians, still standing\nHanging Gardens of Babylon, 600 BC, Babylonians, Destroyed after 1st century BC, earthquake\nTemple of Artemis at Ephesus, 550 BC, Lydians, Greeks, Destroyed 356 BC, fire\nStatue of Zeus at Olympia, 435 BC, Greeks, Destroyed 5th-6th centuries AD, fire\nMausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus, 351 BC, Persians, Greeks, Destroyed 1494 AD, earthquake\nColossus of Rhodes, 292-280 BC, Hellenistic Greece, Destroyed 224 BC, earthquake\nLighthouse of Alexandria, 3rd century BC, Hellenistic Egypt, Destroyed 1303-1480 AD, earthquake
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Hi , for architecture in ancient and medieval times in india, you will not be able to find what you are looking for all on one site. You will have to do extensive research on the net on each point that you want about a particular monument. Just state the point and the name of the place in google-you will then need to find a sites from where u can take the info. \nFor Example: conservation+ajanta+cave, location+khajuraho+temple, etc..\nIf you want pictures- type khajuraho+temple+picture or aerial+khajuraho+temple+pictur... khajuraho+temple+map\nand clink on the link for google pictures\n\nStill here are some sites which might help:\n\nhttp://www.indoarch.org/ -- select the place from search-top left hand corner\n\nhttp://www.art-and-archaeology.com/india/india.html\n\n\n\nKonark: About the temple, Legend of Samba, Language Of Stone, Striking features\nhttp://www.tourtravelworld.com/hot_spots/konark/the_sun_temple_konark/ --- u can check the other monuments here as well.\n\nhttp://konark.nic.in/content.htm  - maps, art and craft, festivals, conservation -- go to these links when u take the cursor on Maps.\n\nhttp://www.kamat.com/database/content/temples/temples_of_orissa.htm\n\n\nSanchi\nhttp://www.buddhanet.net/sanchi.htm\nhttp://rogershepherd.com/wiw/solution12/stupa.htm\n\n\nAjanta Ellora caves\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellora_Caves\n\nhttp://www.webindia123.com/monuments/other/ajanta.htm\nCheck out the links for other monuments as well. \n\nConservation Of Ajanta Caves with pictures:\nhttp://www.gsi.gov.in/ajanello/ajanta.htm\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kailash_temple
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It was built by King Mausolous to house the remains of himself and his sister who was also his lover and wife.  The top had a pyramid shape, the middle i believe was colonnaded in the Greek style and the base was in the form of a Mesopotamian ziggurat. It  was also covered in statues representing the the Pantheon of Mediterranean and middle eastern deities.
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Some of the famous royal tombs that are on the regular tourist routes in Egypt besides that of Tutankhamun include:\n\n- The Step Pyramid of Djoser of the 3rd Dynast at Saqqara.\n- The pyramid(s) of Snefru of the 4th Dynasty at Dashur.\n- The pyramids of the 4th Dynasty rulers Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure at Giza.\n- The mastaba of the vizier of Teti of the 6th Dynasty, Mereruka at Saqqara\n- Any number of tombs in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes, dating to the New Kingdom and including that of Tutankhamun.\n- the tombs of the high elite of the late 18th Dynasty at Saqqara including that of Maya and the tomb prepared for Horemheb before he became king.\n- The northern and southern groups of tombs at Amarna dating to the Amarna period, reign of Akhenaten, of the 18th Dynasty at Tell el-Amarna.
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They used the same technology the egyptians used to build the pyramids.  Except they used wood, instead of stone.
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The first African civilization after Egypt was built by an Egyptianized people who lived between the Nile River's first and third cataracts and spoke Nilo-Saharan languages. This region around the first cataract, called Nubia, had been conquered and colonized by Egypt in the fourth millenium BC. Because of this, Egyptian civilization diffused southward and a new African kingdom was built up in the floodplain around the Nile's third cataract: the Kush. Their capital city was Kerma and it served as the major trading center for goods travelling north from the southern regions of Africa. \n\n   Kush attained its greatest power and cultural energy between 1700 and 1500 BC during the Third Intermediate period in Egypt. The domination of Egypt by the Hyksos allowed Kush to come out from under the hegemony of Egypt and flower as a culture; this period ended, however, when the New Kingdom kings, having thrown the Hyksos out of Egypt, reconquered Kush and brought it under Egyptian colonial rule. \n\n   However, when the New Kingdom collapsed in 1000 BC, Kush again arose as a major power by conquering all of Nubia. The conquest of upper Nubia, which had been in the hands of the Egyptians since the fourth millenium, gave to Kush wealthy gold mines. \n\n   Following the reassertion of Kushite independence in 1000 BC, the Kushites moved their capital city farther up the Nile to Napata. The Kushites by and large considered themselves to be Egyptians and the proper inheritors of the pharoanic titles and tradition. They organized their society along Egyptian lines, assumed all the Egyptian royal titles, and their architecture and art was based on Egyptian architectural and artistic models. Their pyramids were smaller and steeper and they introduced other innovations as well, but the Napatan culture does not on the surface appear much different than Egyptian culture. \n\n   The Kushites even invaded and conquered Egypt in a magnificent irony of history. The Napatan kings formed the twenty-fifth pharaonic dyansty in the eighth century; this dynasty came to an end with the Assyrian invasion of Egypt in the seventh century BC.
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1.The Great Pyramid of Giza \nA gigantic stone structure near the ancient city of Memphis, serving as a tomb for the Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu \nAt the city of Giza, a necropolis of ancient Memphis, and today part of Greater Cairo, Egypt\n\n2.Euphrates river by King Nebuchadnezzar II \nThe Hanging Gardens of Babylon \nA palace with legendary gardens built on the banks of the \nOn the east bank of the River Euphrates, about 50 km south of Baghdad, Iraq\n\n3.The Statue of Zeus at Olympia \nAn enormous statue of the Greek father of gods, carved by the great sculptor Pheidias. At the ancient town of Olympia, on the west coast of modern Greece, about 150 km west of Athens. \n\n\n\n4.The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus \nA beautiful temple in Asia Minor erected in honor of the Greek goddess of hunting and wild nature \nThe ancient city of Ephesus near the modern town of Selcuk, about 50 km south of Izmir (Smyrna) in Turkey. \n\n\n \n5.The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus\nA fascinating tomb constructed for King Maussollos, Persian satrap of Caria. In the city of Bodrum (f.k.a. Halicarnassus) on the Aegean Sea, in south-west Turkey. \n\n \n\n \n6.The Colossus of Rhodes \nA colossus of Helios the sun-god, erected by the Greeks near the harbor of a Mediterranean Island. At the entrance of the harbor of the Mediterranean island of Rhodes in Greece. \n\n\n\nThe Lighthouse of Alexandria \nA lighthouse built by the Ptolemies on the island of Pharos off the coast of their capital city. On the ancient island of Pharos, now a promontory within the city of Alexandria in Egypt.
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Pyramids are among the largest man-made constructions.\n\nAncient monuments\n\nThe oldest pyramid is that of Hellinikon in Greece, dating from 2,720 BC. There are more than 16 pyramids spread all over Greece. (See Hellenic Pyramids.)\n \nThe pyramids of Giza. The largest pyramids are Menkaure's pyramid, Khafre's pyramid, and the Great Pyramid. Pyramid-shaped structures were built by many ancient peoples. The most famous are the Egyptian pyramids — huge pyramids built of brick or stone, used as tombs for pharaohs. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest in Egypt and tallest in the world. It is one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and the only one of the seven to survive into modern times. The ancient Egyptians smoothed the faces of their pyramids with gold and polished white limestone, though many of the stones used for the purpose have fallen out over the centuries.\n\nTo the south of Egypt the Nubians also built pyramids. They built far more than the Egyptians, but they are much smaller. The Nubian pyramids were constructed at a much steeper angle than Egyptian ones and were not tombs, but monuments to dead kings. Pyramids were built in Nubia up until the AD 300s.\n\nThe Mesopotamians also built step pyramids, or ziggurats. In ancient times these were brightly painted. Since they were constructed of mud-brick, little remains of them. The biblical Tower of Babel is believed to be a Babylonian ziggurat.\n\nA number of Mesoamerican cultures also built pyramid-shaped structures. Mesoamerican pyramids were also usually stepped, with temples on top, more similar to the Mesopotamian ziggurat than the Egyptian pyramid. The largest pyramid by volume is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in the Mexican state of Puebla. There is an unusual pyramid with a circular plan at the site of Cuilcuilco, now inside Mexico City and mostly covered with lava from an ancient eruption of Xictli.\n\nThere are other pyramid-shaped ancient monuments found in parts of Asia.\n\nPyramids were also found in Greece. One of these pyramids in Greece is older than the pyramid of Cheops, as it was dated to 2720 BC.\n\nThere is a pyramid in ancient Rome. The 27-meter-high Pyramid of Cestius was built by the end of the first century BC and still exists today, close to the Porta San Paolo.\n\nThere are quite a few flat-top pyramids in China. The First Emperor of Qin (221 B.C.~), with the terracotta warriors in vicinity, was burried under a large pyramid outside modern day Xi'an. In the following centuries a dozen more Chinese royalties of Han Dynasty were also burried under flat top pyramidal earth works.\n\nIn October 2005, archaeologist Semir Osmanagic announced that a hill near the Bosnian town of Visoko conceals a pyramid 100 metres high and perhaps 12,000 years old. If confirmed, this would be the oldest pyramid in Europe, as well as the world.\n\nModern pyramids\n \nA modern pyramid, built as a feature and as an entrance to the Louvre Art Gallery. \n \nThe CSU Long Beach Pyramid. An example of a modern pyramid can be found in Paris, France, in front of the Louvre Museum.\n\nThe 32-story Pyramid Arena in Memphis, Tennessee (built 1991) was the home court for the University of Memphis men's basketball program, and the National Basketball Association's Memphis Grizzlies until 2004.\n\nThe Walter Pyramid, home of the basketball and volleyball teams of the California State University, Long Beach, campus in California, United States, is an 18-story-tall blue pyramid.\n\nThe Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, United States, is a 30-story pyramid.
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Art an architecture is so vast. Here goes try these links. \n\nhttp://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/\n\nhttp://www.pitt.edu/~medart/\n\nhttp://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/\n\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0858789.html\n\nhttp://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Arts/Architec/AncientArchitectural/Mesopotamian/mainpage.htm
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The pictures that we have of Akhenaten are of statues of him which were up high, and meant to be viewed from below, which would create a fore-shortening effect. The sculptors of these statues therefore elongated his features to get over this problem. These statues weren't designed to be seen face-on, as we see them. This is why he looks weird. Having said that, he does have a protruding stomach. He could've had that disease. But I'd like to see where the thing about him being bisexual comes from. On the statue, perhaps they just showed small private parts - doesn't make him bisexual. Or perhaps the respondent means not fully male. Don't know about that one.\n\nAnyway, no, I don't see that there is any reason to think he was an alien.\n\nThere are some interesting books by Ahmed Osman about him, which have theories worth considering, although in my opinion, he goes too far. Akhenaten wanted to strip out all the superfluous gods and return to the worship of the one true God, which he called the Aten and portrayed as the sun disk.\n\nThere is also a beautiful and powerful prayer, supposedly written by Ahkenaten, which is extremely similar to one of the Psalms usually attributed to Soloman. Perhaps he was Soloman too!
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&*&*&\n\n\nNext to the pyramids, sphinx or other buildings the were working on.\nThink about it, they would awaken and be at work.