Excerpt from The Architecture of Ancient Egypt a Historical Outline In giving precedence to. Egypt, I am only following the plan of every book that treats historically of archi tecture in general, and though I appreciate the motives which have led Mr. H. R. Hall, in his learned and now indispensable work on the ancient history of the Near East to deal first with the Aegean civilization, I do not find in them any reason to displace Egypt from the position hitherto assigned to it in this particular branch of art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.