Ancient Egyptian walls and floors.A

One of the most challenging issues in the Egyptian archaeology is comprehending the architectural rules and layouts for the ancient walls and floors. Ancient Egyptian walls and floors of temples were designed and created to maintain a profound resistance to erosion, quakes and earth slides. The most obvious method to consolidate the temples floors and walls was  the use of the dove-tail locking between stones which is phenomenal in the late Egyptian  temples but not much followed in earlier temples. 

The dove-tail lock is depending on the quality of the filling and the plaster use rather than the solidness of the stone itself. However, the dove-tailing is so impressive , it is easily traced and comprehended. The actual challenge comes from the very ancient temples and the Pyramids once someone to stand still failing to reconstruct an ancient wall however having most of its stone found. The stunning fact is that those ancient temples survived in much better condition due to their unique layouts. In such temples, the interlocking stones which are hooked to each other and needlessly for plaster or mortar are the main reason behind their survival. The dilemma for restoring those temples is that each stone is unique and one of its kind or on other words none of the stones are equal in shape or size or weight, which is totally different to modern criss –cross walls and floors. Written by Yasser Kamel for Museumegypt.2006. Copyright@museumegypt.2006