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Minoan is the name given by modern historians to the culture of the people of ancient Crete, known for its elaborate and richly decorated Minoan palaces, and for its pottery, the most famous of which painted with floral and motifs of sea life. The Mycenaean culture, which flourished on the Peloponnesus, was different in character. Its people ...
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. The four-room house is so named because its floor plan is divided into four sections, although not all four are proper rooms, one often being an unroofed courtyard .
At Çatalhöyük, houses were plastered and painted with elaborate scenes of humans and animals. In Europe, the Neolithic long house with a timber frame, pitched, thatched roof, and walls finished in wattle and daub could be very large, presumably housing a whole extended family. Villages might comprise only a few such houses.
In ancient Sumer, houses contained elaborately decorated stools, chairs, jars, and bathtubs. Wealthier citizens had toilets and proper drainage systems. [12] It is possible some houses had altars in the center of the houses. [16] These altars could have been dedicated to the gods, but they could have been dedicated to important people.
Ancient Egyptian houses were made out of mud collected from the damp banks of the Nile river. [7] It was placed in moulds and left to dry in the hot sun to harden for use in construction. If the bricks were intended to be used in a royal tomb like a pyramid, the exterior bricks would also be finely chiselled and polished.
Archaeology is the study of human activity in the past, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts (also known as eco-facts) and cultural landscapes (the archaeological record).
The House of the Tiles is a monumental Early Bronze Age building (two stories, approximately 12 x 25 m) located at the archaeological site of Lerna in southern Greece. [1] It is notable for several architectural features that were advanced for its time during the Helladic period , notably its roof covered by baked tiles , which gave the ...
Houses were created from stone, mud-brick and wood. Assembly halls are also found there. Public baths were used for rituals and ceremonies. There were small rooms along with the bath. No leakages and cracks on stairs. Bricks were used for making public baths. Granaries were found in citadels and were the reason the people from the citadels were ...