African Architecture

Africa was probably the place where people first built houses for themselves out of mud and sticks, because people lived in Africa before they lived anywhere else. This was the earliest architecture. We don't know much about it, because mud and stick houses don't last as well as stone houses.

By 3000 BC, however, people were beginning to build in stone, in places where stone was available. We have the pyramids from Old Kingdom Egypt, from about 2700-2500 BC, and smaller stone tombs known as mastabas.

Egypt is also where people built great temples during the New Kingdom, around 1500 to 1200 BC.

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