Meroitic Palace Entryways and Today’s World When reading and learning about Meroitic palaces, I was fascinated by the elevated entry staircases which…
Elite Audience Spaces This week, I was especially interested in the “audience hut” at Kerma because it strongly reminded…
Meroitic Palace For this post, I will be focusing on the paper titled “The Meroitic Palace and Royal…
Academic Institutions – Academic Palaces For context: I was unfortunately out of town again this week due to interviews. One of…
Open Air, Space, Light as Centers for Spectacle While looking over images of the palaces at Ebla and Kerma, I found myself focusing on…
Sound and Space at Brown’s 2019 Gala Although this week we did not get to visit any sites, I decided to write about…
Meeting Spaces and Interactions This week’s discussions sparked a thought within my mind. These palatial structures all run along a…
The Problem with Conjecture Archeologists often only have part of the puzzle, and are therefore forced to use the provided…
Visible and “Invisible” Staircases In the article, “Performing bodies and theatrical palaces: Courtly gestural vocabularies at Early Bronze Age Ebla,”…
The Accidental Sea For this week’s experience post, I want to talk about two themes: abandonment and the passing…
Square Palaces The article that intrigued me the most this weeks was “Meroitic Palace and Royal City”. In…
Blog Post 3: To Kerma and Beyond This week, we focused on Kerman and Meroitic Palaces in class. The Kerman Palaces in particular…
Defensive Palaces In a class about the palaces of many difference ancient societies, separated by vast amounts of…
Casemate Platform Usage in the Nile Delta I was very interested in casemate platforms used in ancient palaces, particularly after Marc Meillot’s piece,…
Visual Access in the Lahun “Acropolis” and the Roman Domus During our discussion and analysis of Lahun in class a few weeks ago, I distinctly remember…
Hiding One’s Head In the paper, House-Building and Acentred Personhood in Maputo, Mozambique, Morten Nielsen investigates the idea of…
Potential Exterior Decoration of the Audience Hut In the City of Kerma, one of the most noteworthy structures was the Audience Hut, which…
Foreign Cultural Influence on Art and Architecture Over the past few weeks, we have discussed palaces based in different regions. Although each region…
Columns Columns are a central part of many styles of architecture. One might assume that columns are…
The Garden Court at Tell-el-Amarna With the final project beginning, and no excursion this week, I began searching through resources to…
Multilevel Construction and Grain Silos One thing that stood out to me during the reading this week was the use of…
The Library: The House of Knowledge When one approaches the John Carter Brown Library, one immediately notices the wide staircase that leads…
The Impact of Culture on Architecture: The Context of Brown Within their discussion of ‘reflecting architectures,’ Mikkel Bille and Tim Flohr Sorensen effectively contend that the…
It’s not what’s on the outside, it’s what’s on the inside One of the primary intentions when constructing a palace is to create a complex so magnificent…
Knowing More About Our Authors I have been taking in the information we have been given about Kush with a grain…
Shapes of Architecture Two distinct architectural shapes made an impression on me this week: the circular architecture found in…
Archaeological Reconstruction: Beneficial or Damaging? Many of the palaces that we have looked at in class have been reconstructed in some…
