From symbols to written landscapes. The role of astronomy in ancient Egyptian architecture

Architecture of ancient Egypt is criss-crossed by a series of giant projects whose aim was to celebrate the divine nature of the Pharaohs and their rights to eternal afterlife. In many of such projects a complex interplay between idealization of symbols in hieroglyph writings and shaping of built ob...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giulio Magli
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Milano University Press 2018-01-01
Series:Lebenswelt: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience
Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/Lebenswelt/article/view/9460