EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE; ARCHITECTURE; PERIODS OF ART).
BIBLIOGRAPHY.—For Chaldaea, much information is contained in Times reports of excavations at Ur ( Jan. 1925 to March 1928) pending publication in more permanent form. See also J. E. Taylor in Journ. of R. Asiatic Socy. xv. (1855) ; W. K. Loftus, Travels and Researches in Chaldaea and Susiana (1857) ; E. de Sarzec, Decouvertes en Chaldee (1884-1912, for Tello) ; G. Perrot and C. Chipiez, Histoire de l'Art dans l'Antiquite, vol. ii. (1884). All these are admirably summarized in G. Maspero, Dawn of Civilization (trans. M. L. McLure, i914)• For Assyria, Sir H. Layard, Nineveh and Babylon (1853) ; G. Perrot and C. Chipiez, op. cit. and Hist. of Art in Chaldaea and Assyria (trans. W. Armstrong, 1883).
For Babylon, R. Koldewey, Das wieder erstehende Babylon (1925, also trans. by A. S. Johns), Das Ischtar Tor in Babylon (1918).
For Persia, M. Dieulafoy, L'Art antique de la Perse (1885) and L'Aeropole de Suse (189o) ; G. N. Curzon, Persia and the Persian Question (1892) ; G. Perrot and C. Chipiez, Hist. of Art in Persia (Eng. trans. 1892).
For the Hittites, 0. Puchstein, Bogaskoi, die Bauwerke (1912) ; J.
Garstang, The Land of the Hittites (19Io) ; D. G. Hogarth and L. C. Woolley, Carchemish (1914 and 1921). A good general account cover ing the whole field is E. Bell, Early Architecture in Western Asia (1924) • For the Aegean area (Crete), refer also to periodicals. For struc tural aspects, D. Mackenzie, Cretan Palaces and the Aegean Civiliza tion, Annual of the British School at Athens, XI., XII., XIII. and XIV. For fresco, D. T. Fyfe, "Painted Plaster Decoration at Knossos," Journ. of R. Inst. of Brit. Architects, X. 4 (1902) ; N. Heaton, "Mural Paintings of Knossos," Journ. R. Soc. of Arts (Iwo) ; "Minoan Lime Plaster and Fresco Painting," R.I.B.A. Journ., XVIII. (191I) ; and in Tiryns (see below). See also article on AEGEAN CIVILIZATION.
For Aegean area (mainland) refer to article on AEGEAN CIVILIZA TION; particularly (for fresco) G. Rodenwaldt and others, Tiryns (1912 et seq.). (D. T. F.) A general account covering the whole field (not quite up to date on Crete) is E. Bell, Prehellenic Architecture in the Aegean (1926).