The clay would be pressed down tight with a stone roller.
Flat roofed houses ancient egypt.
A great place to cook because if the family was poor they would have no other place outside to cook.
They all lived happily on one hard mud floor 2 samuel 12 3 they would raise the family and sleeps through the night in this one room.
Homes with flat roofs egyptians developed sun dried mud bricks that could resist the flooding from the nile and rain for much longer than undried mud bricks.
The commoners house contain only one room for the whole family.
This illustration shows ancient homes with flat roofs.
The climate was usually mild and ideal for gatherings.
Not only did this most likely make the construction process simpler but the flat roofs also offered a welcome respite from the burning egyptian sun.
Almost all ancient egypt houses were constructed with a flat roof.
Ancient egyptian houses early in egyptian history the people made huts for their houses out of mud and papyrus reeds a local plant.
They decided to start using the mud to create bricks which were stronger than just plain mud.
Flat roofs were a great place to sleep when it got to hot.
Most houses had at least three rooms and all houses had flat roofs which formed part of the living area.
In order to bear the weight of people the roof was supported by palm trunks.
The roof usually had three layers.
Families often lounged ate and slept on the roofs of ancient egypt houses.
There would be pools and gardens servant s quarters wells granaries stables and a small shrine for worship.
A flat roof is almost level in contrast with the many types of sloped roofs.
Wealthy egyptians had spacious estates with comfortable houses.
This sketch of a village home in ancient israel.
The pyramids were made to hold royal tombs of their kings and had storage rooms courtyards secret passage ways and fancy traps.
The houses had high ceilings with pillars barred windows tiled floors painted walls and stair cases leading up to the flat roofs where one could overlook the estate.
The flat roof house an ancient style turned modern the flat roof trend is very popular with modern and contemporary buildings but is actually ancient being characteristic to the egyptian persian and arabian architecture styles.
And it was a great place for children.
In israel it was common for a family to spend much time upon their housetops.
The wooden beams straw mats and a clay top.
Flat roofed homes.
The ancient egyptian houses of the richest people were stronger because they could afford to build their home from stone.
Since the nile river would flood every year it would wash away the mud huts.
Ancient israelite house illustration of a house of a commoner in israel.
The farmhouse above has two floors.
