Ancient Monuments and Ruined Cities - Or the Beginnings of Architecture #259647

A Chapter is given to the description of the earliest home of the human race, and it is shown, according to the evidence furnished by recent explorations, that this was in the valley of the Tigris, in the very locality where the Garden of Eden was located. This Chapter is followed by another which illustrates the different Stages through which architecture passed; stages which are shown in the character of the walls, as well as the buildings and decora tions. Chapters are given on the origin of the arch and the column; on pyramids and palaces in America; on houses and house life; on the architecture of the civilized races; on ancient temples and palaces; on the Toltec Cities; buried cities of Honduras and the ruined Cities of Peru.