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Byzantine churches, Crusader castles, Islamic madrasas, Templer houses, Arab arches and minarets, Russian Orthodox onion domes, International Style modernist buildings, sculptural concrete Brutalist architecture, and glass-sided skyscrapers all are part of the architecture of Israel.
Archaeology has provided information about "Israelite" architectural practices from the 10 th to 6 th centuries B.C.E., and to "Jewish" styles of building and decoration from the late Hellenistic period (1 st century B.C.E.) and later.
Domestic architecture, ancient Israel refers to the typical structures that housed most Israelite families in the Iron Age (c. 1200–587 BCE). Although some house forms that existed in the pre-Israelite periods continued into the Iron Age, mainly in enclaves of non-Israelites, one house form came to dominate in settlements identified as Israelite.
In this 360° photo, step into a full-sized recreation of an Ancient Israelite home from our exhibition "The Houses of Ancient Israel." In archaeological terms, the exhibition focuses on the Iron Age (1200–586 BCE), during which the monarchy of ancient Israel emerged.
Thanks to Israel’s proximity to Damascus, the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate, the Land enjoyed a great development boom and mosques and palaces were built in the new architectural style and technique.
architectural material found and recorded in Hellenistic Israel represents local versions of the three main classical architectural orders, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian, and their variants, as described by Vitruvius, III-IV, IV, passim.
INTRODUCTION. The appearance of Jewish art, architecture, and inscriptions increased enormously in the course of antiquity. Their use and variety were peripheral in Israelite-Jewish society of the first millennium bce and were restricted to a very small number of items and sites for much of the First and Second Temple periods.
