Egyptian inspiration: A possible influence of Egyptian fortifications on Roman military architecture
2017
Abstrakt
When the Roman soldiers entered Egypt, they found there numerous fortifications from the pharaonic era. A few of the pharaonic fortifications were reused by the Roman army or where in the area where the Roman soldiers were stationed.
However the influence of ancient Egyptian architecture on the Roman military architecture is almost never consider. Due to my research about both ancient Egyptian fortifications and Roman fortifications, I think there was a large influence from pharaonic fortification to the Roman military architecture.
In this paper I would like to present the hypothetical impact of two pharaonic building on the Roman military architecture: fortlet in Wadi al-Hudi and the Aswan wall