Editing Clerestory (section)

===Ancient world===
Clerestories appear to originate in [[Egyptian temple]]s, where the lighting of the hall of columns was obtained over the stone roofs of the adjoining aisles, through gaps left in the vertical slabs of stone. They appeared in Egypt at least as early as the [[Amarna Period]].<ref>Gwendolyn Leick and Francis J. Kirk, ''A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Architecture'', 1988, Routledge, 261 pages {{ISBN|0-415-00240-0}}</ref> [[Minoan palaces]] in [[Crete]] such as [[Knossos]]  employed  [[lightwell]]s in addition to clerestories.<ref>C. Michael Hogan, [http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/10854/knossos.html#fieldnotes ''Knossos fieldnotes'', Modern Antiquarian (2007)]</ref>

According to the [[Hebrew Bible]], [[Solomon's Temple]] featured clerestory windows made possible by the use of a tall, angled roof and a central {{linktext|ridgepole}}.<ref name="Palmer2008">{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Allison Lee|title=Historical Dictionary of Architecture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHR9sHRfQ_0C&pg=PA267|access-date=2014-06-15|date=2008-09-11|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6283-8|page=267}}</ref>

The clerestory was used in the [[Hellenistic art#Architecture|Hellenistic architecture]] of [[classical antiquity]]. The Romans applied clerestories to [[basilica]]s of justice and to the basilica-like [[thermae]] and palaces.