Ancestral Architecture of the Near East


Tor Faraj Site,Late Levantine Mousterians (Neandertals) in southern Jordan	The Trilithon (megalithic pre-Roman ?) of the Temple of Jupiter at Heliopolis (now Baalbek), The Lebanon	Ur, Sumerian and Babylonian Civilization, near the mouth of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers, Iraq	Ur, Typical Courtyard House, Sumerian and Babylonian Civilization, near the mouth of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers, Iraq	Tell Es-Sawwan, Early Mesopotamian Civilization, Tigris River, north of Bagdad, Iraq

Uruk, Eanna Precinct, Sumerian and Babylonian Civilization, east of Euphrates River, near Warka, Iraq	Tutub Khafaje, (Temple of Moon god, Sin)Sumerian Civilization, near Bagdad, Iraq	House at Kheit Qasim III, Obeid North Civilization, Mesopotamia, East Central Iraq	House at Nippur, Sumerian Civilization, Mesopotamia, near Afak, Iraq	Large House at Assur, Sumerian Civilization, near Al-Shirqat, Iraq.

Two Houses at Jebel Aruda, Sumerian Civilization, east bank of Assad River, near Alleppo, northern Syria	Residence K at Dur-Sharrukin, Assyrian Civilization, Palace of Sargon (Khorsabad), near Mosul, northern Iraq.	Mesopotamian Houses: Spacial Concepts and Comparative Scales	Awām Temple ( Mahram Bilqis), Sabaean Culture, Kingdom of Sheba, pre-Islamic, southern coast of Yemen	Dur-Sharrukin "Fortress of Sargon" (Khorsabad), near Mosul, nothern Iraq.

	Mudhif - Reed Vaulted House, Marsh Arab (Maʻdān) Culture, Tigris-Euphrates Rivers marshes, south and east Iraq	Bedouin Tent, Bedouin Culture, Arabian and Syrian deserts	Al-Qasabat (mud dwellings) Asir Culture, highlands of the Southern-most province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	The Great Mosque and Dar al-'Imara at Kufa, Iraq, earliest monumental Islamic Architecture