Ancient civilisations came up with ingenious ways to build the best homes for their environment – from materials and designs to keep rooms cool in the desert, to systems that kept their houses ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum spans an astonishing 500,000 square meters, twice the size of the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Not many examples of ancient Egyptian houses have survived because they were built a very long time ago. Houses would have been built of mud-bricks with floors made from earth. They had living ...