A selection of illustrated papers stemming from an International Symposium in Cairo, April 1992, which represent a wide range of study areas. Contributions include: Habitat et palais dans l'ancienne Nubie (Charles Bonnet); The Temple Palace of Merenptah in his House of a Million Years at Qurna (Horst Jaritz); Serif-style Architecture and the Design of the Archaic Egyptian Palace (Klaus Peter Kuhlmann); Houses of the Third Intermediate period at El-Ashmunein (Alan J. Spencer); The Archaic-Old Kingdom Delta:the Evidence from Mendes and Kom El-Hisn (Robert J.Wenke & Douglas J. Brewer); Deir el-Ballas and New Kingdom Royal Cities (Peter Lacovara). Nine loose plans in separate slip-case.