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Architecture in Naqadan Egypt
There is little evidence for architecture in the Naqadan Period. Very few temple buildings survive. At Naqada Petrie excavated important parts of a large scale building or building complex. Its function remains unknown. Only for funerary architecture do more substantial remains survive.
In the Naqada Period there is a gradual but clear shift from round tombs to rectangular tombs; the richer among the later rectangular tombs have linings of mud brick, a material that is itself rectilinear.
(click on the pictures for more information on each tomb)
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Badari 3731
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Naqada 1858
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Naqada 1863
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Naqada T 16
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Qau 1629
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Hierakonpolis 100
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Examples of domestic/non-funerary architecture
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Hemamieh, a village
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Naqada 'south town'
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