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Reviewed on March 1, 2008
The idea for this book germinated while McKenzie (From Nineveh to New York) was working at Petra in the 1980s, where she saw that stylistic features of Ptolemaic Alexandria (306-30 B.C.E.) appeared in later Coptic architecture (200s-600s C.E.) and wondered about the continuity of classical architecture throughout Egypt. This complex topic covers 1000 years of architectural history, from the rule of Alexander the Great, to ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More