The Lincoln-Omaha Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) presents our own Philip Sapirstein for the final lecture of the 2014-15 AIA lecture series. The Doric style is one of the most successful and influential architectural systems in history. Although we can date the earliest remains of Doric monuments to the decades around 600 B.C., today there is little consensus about how the style was developed. After centuries without any tradition of monumental architecture, Greeks appear to have begun constructing enormous stone monuments surrounded by dozens of Doric columns—which supported a standardized entablature with a triglyph-metope frieze, geison, and pediment. In this talk, I re-examine the problem of Doric origins as a potential case of cultural transmission. The Doric temple emerged at the end of a period when Greeks were in frequent contact with the Near East, in particular Egypt. I argue that the scholarship on Greek architecture has, up to now, downplayed the many striking similarities between early Doric temples and Egyptian and other Near Eastern monuments. Like contemporary Greek painting, sculpture, and even Ionic architecture, we can view the Doric temple as another example of Greeks creatively adapting and remixing decorative systems and practical techniques that they learned from the cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean.