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<< Text Pages >> Milkashtart Temple - Ancient Temple in Lebanon

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Multi-periodSite Name: Milkashtart Temple Alternative Name: Umm el-Amed
Country: Lebanon
NOTE: This site is 0.48 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Sour  Nearest Village: Naquora
Latitude: 33.095397N  Longitude: 35.108416E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
2 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
2 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
3

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Ancient Temple in Lebanon

5th Century BCE temple of Milkashtart, the Phoenician prototype for Herakles. There is an oher unalocated temple directly to the East.

The site is suposed to be complictaed to access due to the proximity of the Israeli border and due to being partially blocked by fields and agricultural equipment.
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