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| c. 2000 BC |
| | The cemetery at Los Millares in Spain contains more than 100 beehive tombs | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | The temples of Karnak and Luxor, in ancient Thebes, introduce the massive stone architecture of column and lintel | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | The massive architecture of Mycenaean cities such as Tiryns is said in Greek legend to have been built by one-eyed giants, the Cyclopes | |
| | Tiryns, Greece Fotofile CG
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | The so-called Treasury of Atreus, at Mycenae, is the most spectacular of the beehive tombs of this period | |
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| c. 1380 BC |
| | The pharaoh Amenhotep III commissions the great temple to Amen-Re at Luxor | |
| | Luxor, the Great Temple of Amun Fotofile CG
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| c. 1250 BC |
| | Ramses II creates a spectacular temple in his own honour at Abu Simbel | |
| | Abu Simbel Fotofile CG
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | The Olmecs raise large clay platforms, probably with temples at the top, beginning the long American tradition of sacred pyramids | |
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | Burial mounds feature in the Ohio valley, built first in the Adena culture and then by Hopewell tribes | |
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| c. 650 BC |
| | The capitals of Greek pillars are by now in the two basic patterns of Doric and Ionic | |
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| 530 BC |
| | Cyrus the Great is buried in an austerely impressive tomb at Pasagardae, in Persia | |
| | Pasagardae, Tomb of Cyrus Fotofile CG
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