Ancient Israel and Judah
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Ancient Israel and Judah were two Israelite kingdoms that existed in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age. Their history began with the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan's hill country.
The Kingdoms of Judah and Israel, produced by Edward Weller c. 1890
Tel Megiddo, the ruins of a Canaanite and later Israelite city
The Merneptah Stele (c. 1208 BCE) – an Egyptian inscription by Pharaoh Merneptah – contains the earliest known reference to "Israel", indicating a people in Canaan at that time
A reconstructed Israelite house, 10th–7th century BCE. Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.
The domestic architecture of ancient Israel is best defined by the four-room house: a standardized plan featuring three longitudinal rooms and one broad room, which served as a spatial response to bot
Gate from Hazor's royal fort with proto-Aeolic capitals, dating to the time of Ahab, 9th century BCE
The 10th-century BCE gate at Khirbet Qeiyafa, featuring the first usage of proto-ashlars in ancient Israel
Stone foundations of a four-room house at Gezer
Proto-Aeolic capital unearthed in the City of David, Jerusalem