According to Professor Zertal, the square altar matches descriptions of Jerusalem’s temple altar but was built two centuries after the biblical date for Joshua. The smaller circular altar (Installation 94) sits directly under and in the exact center of the later 13th-century b.c.e. altar. Dr. Scott Stripling believes Installation 94 is likely Joshua’s altar.

The 10th-century B.C.E Large Stone Structure (“David’s Palace”) is in blue, interlocking with and supported by the buttressing Stepped Stone Structure in yellow.