babylonian architecture
1BABYLONIAN ARCHITECTURE — See ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN ARCHITECTURE …
2Architecture of Mesopotamia — A ziggurat in Iraq The architecture of Mesopotamia is the ancient architecture of the region of the Tigris–Euphrates river system (also known as Mesopotamia), encompassing several distinct cultures and spanning a period from the 10th millennium… …
3Babylonian literature — is one of the world s oldest. Drawing on the traditions of Sumerian literature, the Babylonians compiled a vast textual tradition of mythological narrative, legal texts, scientific works, letters and other literary forms. As a scribal society,… …
4architecture — /ahr ki tek cheuhr/, n. 1. the profession of designing buildings, open areas, communities, and other artificial constructions and environments, usually with some regard to aesthetic effect. Architecture often includes design or selection of… …
5art and architecture, Mesopotamian — Introduction the art and architecture of the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations. The name Mesopotamia has been used with varying connotations by ancient writers. If, for convenience, it is to be considered synonymous with the modern… …
6Art and architecture of Assyria — Assyria flourished from the Old Assyrian period in the Middle Bronze Age until the Neo Assyrian Empire in the Early Iron Age. Building materials In Babylonia, an abundance of brick, and lack of stone, led to greater use of mudbrick; Babylonian… …
7Mesopotamian art and architecture — encompasses all of the following:* Sumerian art Sumerian architecture [http://www.bartleby.com/65/su/Sumerian.html] * Babylonian art Babylonian architecture [http://www.bartleby.com/65/su/Sumerian.html] * Assyrian art Assyrian architecture… …
8ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN ARCHITECTURE — The various cultures of the Ancient Near East were extremely important in the development of architecture and the civic aspects of urban space. From the Sumerians, who developed the pyramidal religious structure called the ziggurat, to the… …
9Proportion (architecture) — Proportion is the relation between elements and a whole. Architectural proportions In architecture the whole is not just a building but the set and setting of the site. The things that make a building and its site well shaped include the… …
10Sumerian architecture — The Sumerians were a people who lived in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) from the 4th millennium BC to the 3rd millennium BC. Their accomplishments include, the invention of urban planning, the courtyard house, and the Ziggurats (high adobe brick… …
