世俗建筑的材料 在埃及能够留存到今天的古老建筑都是石头建造的,但是石材井不是应用最普遍的建筑材料。埃及大多数住宅的主要建筑材料是很容易分解的未经烧制的土坯砖,这种材料至今在埃及的许多村镇中仍得到广泛的使用。尼罗河的淤泥成为得天独厚的加工土坯砖的重要的材料来源,土坯砖不仅很容易加工、并且廉价,更重要的是,在尼罗河谷地的干热气候条件下,还 Materials for Secular Architecture The ancient buildings in Egypt that survived today are all stone-built, but stone wells are not the most commonly used building materials. The main building material for most homes in Egypt is a very easy to break up of unfired adobe brick, which is still widely used in many villages and towns in Egypt. The Nile silt has become an exceptional source of material for processing adobe bricks that are not only easy to machine but also cheap and, more importantly, dry and hot in the Nile Valley