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Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, ‘Ayn Dārah
  • geo:36.459831,36.85334
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -35000~ / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Annotations

The Ain Dara Tell was inhabitated from the Chalcolithic (the fourth millennium BC). The modern-day settlement of Ein Dara is situated just east of the ancient Ain Dara Tell.

Sources:

  1. Elizabeth C. Stone, Paul Zimansky: The Iron Age Settlement at 'Ain Dara, Syria Survey and Soundings, Hadrian Books / Archaeopress, 1999
  2. John Monson, The New ‘Ain Dara Temple: Closest Solomonic Parallel,

Nearby

Ain Dara

Neo-Hittite Temple - Late Bronze and Iron Age temple

Ain Dara Museum

Little museum of the site Ain Dara

Afrin Stele (4 km)

Late Hittite stele


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