Egypt

The Greeks and the Romans weren't the first of the ancient people to use a gridded urban plan. A worker’s village at Giza in Egypt was laid out in a gridded pattern around 2500 BC.  The "workers village" housed the labor force of Egypt. The city is laid out in blocks of long galleries separated by streets. The common orientation of the grid  was north-south axis from the royal palace and east-west axis from the temple. When Hammurabi rebuilt Babylon around 1750 BC the plan was generally at right angles and gridded.