The ancient Egyptians cultivated gardens from prehistoric until Roman times 3000 BC AD 100 However it is only from just before the Middle Kingdom 2000 BC that evidence from both contemporary images and excavations makes it possible to visualize how they looked Evidence for gardens comes from excavations illustrations in tombs and on temple walls wooden and pottery models and from documents such as building inscriptions biographies Wilkinson 2012 After reading few articles about garden design in Ancient Egypt I was impressed with their ability to build gardens in quite non hostile conditions and with no tools and machinery we know nowadays In Ancient Egypt these types of gardens were most common palace gardens temple gardens pleasure gardens and funeral gardens Wilkinson 2012 says that in order to create these magnificent gardens the Egyptian designers had to deal with two potentially overwhelming elements the desert and the river In the desert there was too little vegetation and along the river bank there was too much I think that this is one of the things we might have in common with Egyptian designers Nowadays we also have to consider the conditions of the land to make the whole complex of garden design to work Dunn 2003 in his article mentions that Regrettably we know of very few depictions of gardens that surround normal houses more often there is evidence describing gardens surrounding the palaces the temples and the houses of well off owners