Funerary Architecture during the Middle Bronze Age in the Levant: Chamber Burials as an Example.

This research deals with the study of a type of funerary architecture that was prevalent during the Middle Bronze Age in the Levant, the type of chamber burials that were prepared and designed during the construction of houses, as in Ugarit, Tell Tueni, Megiddo, and Tell Dan. This style of funerary architecture was not limited to houses, but rather appeared. Clearly within the palaces dating back to the Middle Bronze Age in Alalakh, Ebla and Qatna, the design and equipment of these rooms differed between houses and palaces. They varied between a single room preceded by a hall or corridor in some houses, to a number of rooms preceded by a hall or long corridor such as those found. On it in the palaces of Ebla and Qatana. The tombs discovered in each site were studied separately and then compared with each other in terms of architectural design. This research also attempted to clarify the idea and purpose of constructing these rooms under houses and palaces in the Levant.