Ancient and Classical Architecture

The architecture of the ancient world, from monumental stone building in Egypt and China through the classical orders developed in Greece and elaborated across the Roman world, the foundation the whole Western architectural vocabulary of column, pediment and dome draws on. Belongs here: any style whose primary period is the ancient world, whether or not it later influenced revival movements. Does not belong here: later styles that consciously revive classical forms, such as neoclassical architecture, grouped under Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical Architecture, because their real period and context is the revival, not antiquity itself.