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Events relating to architecture
Jericho, often quoted as the first town, grows into a settlement covering ten acres
Sun-dried bricks are used in the construction of buildings in Jericho
The neolithic town of Catal Huyuk has rectangular rooms with windows, a design with lasting appeal
The neolithic town of Khirokitia in Cyprus has a paved public street with lanes leading off to courtyards of round tent-like houses
A passage grave with a superb corbelled dome is constructed on the Île Longue off the southern coast of Brittany
Complex societies, with sophisticated temple architecture, develop at sites such as Aspero and Caral in the Norte Chico region of Peru
Imhotep creates the first pyramid - the 'step pyramid' at Saqqara - as a tomb for the pharaoh Djoser
Egypt enters the period known as the Old Kingdom, its first era of monumental architecture
The first and largest of the three great pyramids at Giza is built for the pharaoh Khufu, later known to the Greeks as Cheops
A small neolithic community builds a village at Skara Brae in the Orkneys, of stone houses with built-in stone furniture
A superb passage grave is built at Newgrange in Ireland
Knossos, and other such palaces, are built for dynasties in Minoan Crete
The cemetery at Los Millares in Spain contains more than 100 beehive tombs
The temples of Karnak and Luxor, in ancient Thebes, introduce the massive stone architecture of column and lintel
The massive architecture of Mycenaean cities such as Tiryns is said in Greek legend to have been built by one-eyed giants, the Cyclopes
The so-called Treasury of Atreus, at Mycenae, is the most spectacular of the beehive tombs of this period
The pharaoh Amenhotep III commissions the great temple to Amen-Re at Luxor
Ramses II creates a spectacular temple in his own honour at Abu Simbel
The Olmecs raise large clay platforms, probably with temples at the top, beginning the long American tradition of sacred pyramids
Burial mounds feature in the Ohio valley, built first in the Adena culture and then by Hopewell tribes
The capitals of Greek pillars are by now in the two basic patterns of Doric and Ionic
Cyrus the Great is buried in an austerely impressive tomb at Pasagardae, in Persia
The Greek colonists of Paestum, in southern Italy, build the first of their three superb temples
Darius starts to build a spectacular new palace and capital at Persepolis
The Athenians begin building the Parthenon, a temple to Athena, which they complete within ten years
