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The interior nave of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, first constructed 532-37 CE.

An artist's rendition of how the ancient Greek transport ship the Syracusia may have looked. It is reported to have been one of the largest ships built in antiquity.

Upper Paleolithic art in Altamira Cave, in Santillana del Mar (Cantabria region), Spain. The paintings in the cave date from the Middle Magdalenian to the Gravettian period.

Some of the stone vessels found at Tel Kabri in 1956. These vessels are from the Wadi Rabah material culture which inhabited Tel Kabri and the surrounding area from 4500–3500 BCE. These objects are now on display in the Israel Museum.

The ceremonial hall at Tel Kabri as it appeared in 2015 CE. The hall was constructed c. 1720 BCE as part of the second phase of Tel Kabri's Middle Bronze Age Canaanite palace. It is believed to have served as the focal point of the palace...

The "Orthostat Building" in Tel Kabri's Area D-West originally discovered in 2011. The Orthostat Building is believed to have been constructed as part of the Middle Bronze Age Canaanite palace at Tel Kabri between 1600 and 1550 BCE during...

A portion of an Ottoman-Period Palestinian aqueduct constructed during the reign of Jezzar Pasha, Ottoman ruler of Acre (1775–1804 CE). The aqueduct runs from Tel Kabri to Acre in Northern Israel and functioned all the way up to 1948 CE...

Ziggurat at Chogha Zanbil consecrated to the God Inshushinak. Inshushinak was one of the most important Elamite deities, worshipped in Susa and Khuzestan region during the Middle Elamite Period.

Area DS-1 of Tel Kabri in 2011 as seen from the Mandate Period road.

A table of Tel Kabri's stratigraphy for Middle Bronze Age I and II. Source: Yasur-Landau et al. 2014, 356-364; Kempinski 2002, 4-5 Yasur-Landau et al. 2012, 3.