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Arzaworld.com: Historical Architecture and Design in Israel Archived 2018-04-20 at the Wayback Machine; A little modesty goes a long way Archived 2008-06-09 at the Wayback Machine by David Kroyanker; Fifty Years of Israeli Architecture as Reflected in Jerusalem's Buildings, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 26 May 1999; Israel Architect Design
The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan's hill country during the late second millennium BCE, to the establishment and subsequent downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms in the mid-first millennium BCE.
The Israel Architecture Archive (IAA) is the archive collection in Tel Aviv, Israel that documents Israeli architectural culture and practice. [1] Since its establishment in 1995, the IAA has become a unique database on planning and building in Palestine and Israel from the late 19th century to the present.
Ancient Ashdod has today become an archaeological site known as "Tel Ashdod", located a few kilometers south of the modern Israel city of Ashdod. It was excavated by archaeologists in nine seasons between 1962 and 1972. The effort was led during the first few years by David Noel Freedman of the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and Moshe Dothan.
Currently the most ancient site in Israel, and one of the earliest outside of Africa, is Ubeidiya, in the Jordan Rift Valley. Its age is estimated to be between 1.55 and 1.2 million years BP. Many stone tools of the Acheulean culture have been discovered there.
Biblical archaeology studies archaeological sites from the Ancient Near East and especially the Holy Land (also known as Land of Israel and Canaan), from biblical times. Biblical archaeology emerged in the late 19th century, by British and American archaeologists, with the aim of confirming the historicity of the Bible.
A reconstructed Israelite house, 10th–7th centuries BCE, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel Digital 3D reconstruction of basic space distribution. A four-room house, also known as an "Israelite house" or a "pillared house" is the name given to the mud and stone houses characteristic of the Iron Age of Levant.
Remnants of the Monolith of Silwan, a First Temple period tomb. The so-called Garden Tomb (9th–7th century BCE). The Silwan necropolis, the most important cemetery of the First Temple period, is located in the Kidron Valley across from the City of David, in the lower part of the ridge where the village of Silwan now stands. [5]