way in which Mark has tried to make the whole picture look as realistic as possible by including elements like depth and lighting.
The image above is a complete picture of the Temple of Isis - look at the lighting! It looks like you are looking down towards the doors! This is what the temple must have looked like in its day. Below is a reconstruction of a generic New Kingdom Temple. Click on the image to see a video of the Temple - a working computer model! Its breathtaking to see what a temple may have looked like - inside and out. The CD is full of these reconstructions - you even get to see how Pillars etc were created and Obelisks were raised for example.
One of my friends amused me when I sent her an image background for her desktop (available for download here:http://www.eyelid.co.uk/temple1.htm) of the Colonnade of Amenhotep III - she said “I would get very nervous with all those funny things running around (on the walls)” - but these were Temples. Houses and ordinary living areas were not obviously adorned with so many figures! Take a look at this reconstruction of an Egyptian house below:
Spectacular isn’t it. I wish I had such a lovely home! Imagine if by some quirk that these Temples had survived to our day! Wouldn’t it have been lovely to have seen them in such states! Makes you wonder about our current architecture of awful lego-brick computer model style graveyard skyscrapers. Art Deco came close but now all we seem to have are Plastic and Concrete giant warehouses being built. Hideous by comparison!
Much in the same way, Mark Millmore takes us into a real alive world of Pyramids. Most of us wonder about those pyramids we all know the Giza pyramids - but did you know there are well over 100 pyramids discovered! But, of course the pyramids at Giza are so well known to us all. In their heyday they were much bigger and covered with limestone casings and had gold Pyramedions at the top!
