Surviving buildings in the Egyptian Revival style are rare anywhere, and the Temple is certainly unique in Mobile. It’s also on the National Register of Historic Places. Its provenance includes ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Built in 1921 -- The Temple Downtown has been a mysterious fixture in the Port City for more than 100 years. It served as the Grand Lodge for the Scottish Rite.

These trends are most often driven by social preferences of the time, advances in technology, new construction techniques and, in the case of Egyptian Revival, by an archeological discovery in 1922.

The symbols were found in the Temple of Esna, an ancient Egyptian temple that dates back to the Greco-Roman times and was completed in A.D. 250, per Egypt Independent. The Temple of Esna. Ahmed Amin ...

A car speeds past the Egyptian Theatre, built in 1929, in downtown DeKalb April 1, 2022. Egypt-inspired decor of the Egyptian Theatre in downtown DeKalb is seen here on April 1, 2022. “How mu… ...

Rallies were held. Then, in October 1973, Egypt invaded Israel. Suddenly, bankrolling the glorification of an Egyptian temple was considerably less appealing to New York philanthropists.

Previous research has indicated that ancient Egyptian temples were not only colorful, but gleamed in glistening gold. Since the beginning of the Pharaonic Era—which lasted from around 3100 B.C ...

At an ancient Egyptian temple, rare traces of gold leaf and graffiti were uncovered. A team of researchers from the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany, made the discovery during ...