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This book is a comprehensive study of the Levantine architecture in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. The current book is unprecedented in its contents and the manner in which it addresses the subject since it contains all Persian-period sites in the whole Levant -as an integrated entity- that contains building remains. It also handles the Achaemenid impacts - both the direct and indirect ones- on the tradition of the Levantine architecture through conducting a descriptive, analytical and interpretative study of the buildings under consideration. Another perspective adopted here is that of functionally characterizing each excavated context, thus reaching assessments which are not only typologically based. This has resulted in a better understanding of the nature of the social, economic, political, and religious life in the entire Levant.

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I obtained the Bachelor degree in archaeology in 2008 and obtained the master degree in 2011. On July 2016, I was awarded the Ph.D. degree in archaeology and art history of the ancient Near East from the University of Bologna in Italy. Currently, I am working at the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology (GPIA) in Amman.

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