Temples were found everywhere in ancient Egypt as a place to worship their gods. Each of the cities had a temple built for the God of that city. Tombs were really great part of the temples. The walls of the Egyptian temples were made of mud bricks. These temples contain bizarre features such as stone stake and half opened door (page 40-41). On the temples there are recognizable pictures of people, animals, tools, heavenly bodies and buildings. The “pictures” of the temples need not to be in anyway associated with the sign’s meaning or function, but when some connection exists, the hieroglyphs can convey extra meaning which is lost in our writing today (page 107). the temple was indeed considered the home of the god, it did not function like the temples of other cultures where people come and go more or less as they please. Those who lived near an important cult center or even a smaller temple could always go to the outer court and leave their offerings and there was also a backdoor behind the main building where they could hand in their ostraca on which they had scribbled prayers and questions, or they could whisper their troubles to an attending priest. A god's presence in the temple linked the human and divine realms and allowed humans to interact with the god through ritual. The massive proportions on the temple protect the temple from the forces of chaos which threaten to invade it from outside (143). Egyptian architecture employed round columns or rectangular pillars when they wished to spanned distances which were too large for a single slab. Columns could be monolithic but very large columns were built up from a series of column drums or half drums. Wooden columns were made of stone and not wood as many people think (143). Each temple had a principal deity, and most were dedicated to other gods as well. However, not all deities had temples dedicated to them. Many demons and household gods were involved primarily in magical or private religious practice,...