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
Silwan necropolis
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The Silwan necropolis is the remains of a rock-cut cemetery assumed to have been used by the highest-ranking officials residing in Jerusalem. Its tombs were cut between the 9th and 7th centuries BC. I
Remnants of the Monolith of Silwan dated to the 9th–7th century BCE
Rock-cut tombs in the bedrock under modern homes in Silwan
Lintel of the tomb of "...yahu who is over the house"