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• A large stone used in construction of a structure or monument is called a stone.
• A primitive Indian structure of joined logs is a cabin.
• Wedge-shaped writing allowed accurate information transfer.
• The Audience Hall of Persepolis is among the oldest parts of the palace complex.
• Irrigated gardens on the terraces of Babylon's Citadel were the Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders.
• Human-headed, winged bulls or lions guarding Mesopotamian entrances are called Lamassu.
• The pyramid near the Great Sphinx is located at Gizeh.
• The temple dedicated to Amun provided a worship site for Amun, Osiris, Isis, and Ptah.
• An Egyptian cornice with cavetto decorated with leaves and a roll molding is referred to as a gorge.
• The small chamber inside the mastaba holding the deceased's statue is a serdab.
• A rock-cut corridor in an Egyptian temple is a speos.
• Rows of monsters (lion body, human/hawk/ram head) leading to monuments are criosphinxes.
• A raised passageway connecting a valley temple to an Egyptian pyramid is a causeway.
• Imhotep is considered the architect of Djoser's step pyramid.
• The rock-cut temple at Abu Simbel features 4 colossal statues of Ramses over 20 m high.
• Gateways to ancient Egyptian temples include truncated pyramids and doorways, often decorated with painted reliefs, known as pylons.
• A Greek dwelling with a colonnade-surrounded courtyard is defined as a peristyle house.
• The fortified high area of an ancient Greek city is the acropolis.
• The flat slab atop a column capital, plain in Doric style but molded in others, is the abacus.
• An elaborate, historic burial ground is a necropolis.
• A monumental gateway to a sacred enclosure, fortification, town, or square is called a propylaeum.
• The sacred area or enclosure of a classical Greek temple is the temenos.
• A masonry course forming the foundation for a row of columns is the stylobate.
• A double line of columns surrounding a naos is a dipteral.
• A Men's dining room where social events are held is an andron.
• A temple with a row of columns carrying a portico in front is defined as prostyle
• A carved, draped female figure used as a column is a caryatid.
• Architectural structure designed for choral songs and dances is a theatron.
• A public town hall for citizens in ancient Greece is an prytaneion.
• An aisle between seat tiers in an ancient Greek theater is the diazoma.
• 'Basket-carrying' draped female column is a canephora.
• Decorative motif with long, rounded, parallel grooves is fluting.
• Elements that appear to be replicas of wooden pins driven through mutules to secure roof boarding are guttus.
• The principal chamber of a temple where the cult image was kept is the naos.
• An oval/round building with tiered seats around a central arena is an amphitheater.
• The column used in the second storey of the Colosseum is Ionic.
• A semicircular space in an ancient Roman theater for distinguished spectators is the orchestra.

Vaults and other structures

• An arched stone, brick, or concrete structure forming a ceiling or roof is a vault.
• Classical Roman marble paving with varying sized and shaped pieces are tesserae.
• A roof opening for rainwater discharge in an ancient Roman house is a compluvium.
• A civic square in a Roman city for meetings, markets, and public events is the forum.
• Classical Roman masonry of rough stones set in mortar is opus incertum.
• The main central space of an amphitheater or circus is the arena.
• A classical Roman shop or workshop is the taberna.
• Dignitary seating in ancient Roman structures are called tribunal.
• A rectangular Roman building with an apse, used as a court of justice is a basilica.
• Roman apartment blocks, often multi-story, for the laboring classes are called insula.
• An area in thermae or bath houses with lukewarm baths is the tepidarium.
• The column used in the 4th storey of the Colosseum is Corinthian.
• A large Roman country house with living and working areas is a villa.

Decoration

• The ornamental scroll-like bracket beneath a Corinthian, Composite, or Roman Ionic cornice is an acanthus.
• Apollodorus of Damascus known as the architect of the pantheon.
• The Doric order is the simplest of the five orders, featuring a base, unfluted shaft, a molded capital, and a plain entablature
• Units converging at the arch centers in a masonry arch or vault are voussoirs.
• The forecourt of an early Christian church, flanked by porticoes is the atrium.
• The portico before the nave of an early Christian or Byzantine church is the narthex.
• A room in the church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept is the sacristy.
• A covered walk having an arcade or colonnade on one side opening onto a courtyard known as a cloister.
• A screen separating the bema from the nave is an iconostasis.
• An enclosed area in front of a cathedral or church that is surrounded with a colonnade or porticoes is called a parvis.
• The outer vestibule of an orthodox or early Christian church is the exonarthex.
• The table in a Christian church upon which the eucharist, also called communion table, is the altar.
• The part specifically reserved for the choir or liturgical signers in an Early Christian church is the bema,.
• A spherical triangle used as a transition is called pendentive.
• Hagia Sophia is Greek for "Sacred Wisdom"/ "Holy Wisdom".
• Agia Irini means "Holy peace".
• Removal of minarets is not an Islamic feature of Hagia Sophia when it was converted into mosques.
• "The Little Metropole in Athens" is the smallest cathedral.
• The Kariye Mosque has the largest number of Byzantine mosaics
• Ishtar Gate depicts blue enameled mosaics that show bulls, dragons and lions.