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<< Our Photo Pages >> Ain Dara - Ancient Temple in Syria

Submitted by AlexHunger on Wednesday, 31 January 2018  Page Views: 11846

Site WatchSite Name: Ain Dara Alternative Name: Kinalua
Country: Syria
NOTE: This site is 39.033 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Aleppo  Nearest Village: Afrin
Latitude: 36.504399N  Longitude: 36.877676E
Condition:
5Perfect
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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2 Ambience:
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4 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Ain Dara submitted by dodomad : Recent Turkish airstrikes on the Kurdish-held Afrin region of northern Syria have damaged an ancient temple, with 3,000-year-old stone carvings "blasted into fragments," a watchdog group says. More details here (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Temple in Syria. Two funeral towers dating to the Palmyra era, along with the foundations of a further three tombs

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Ain Dara submitted by Flickr : Ain Dara taken in 2008 Image copyright: brigdh, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Ain Dara submitted by Flickr : Ain Dara taken in 2007 Image copyright: James Covey (James Covey), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Ain Dara submitted by AlexHunger : Basalt Friese taken from Ain Dara Tempel, now at the Aleppo Museum. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Airstrikes Blast 3,000-Year-Old Temple in Syria by Andy B on Wednesday, 31 January 2018
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Recent Turkish airstrikes on the Kurdish-held Afrin region of northern Syria have damaged an ancient temple, with 3,000-year-old stone carvings "blasted into fragments," a watchdog group says.

The American Schools of Oriental Research's (ASOR) Cultural Heritage Initiatives collaboration has been monitoring the destruction of monuments during the war in Syria. According to the group's latest update, the temple of Ain Dara just south of Afrin suffered "heavy damage" after it was hit, sometime between Jan. 20 and Jan. 22.

The temple was built by a group of people known as the Aramaeans in the early first millennium B.C., after the collapse of the Hittite Empire, at a time when civilizations in the region were emerging from the Bronze Age and entering the Iron Age.

See Images of Ain Dara Temple Before and After Airstrikes
https://www.livescience.com/61572-photos-destruction-syria-temple.html

Since Jan. 20, Turkey has led an assault on the Syrian Kurdish enclave Afrin, according to the Associated Press. The city is held by the People's Protection Units, a Kurdish militia known as the YPG, which Turkey considers a terrorist group and a threat to its security; the United States has considered the YPG an ally in the fight against ISIS, Reuters reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 55 civilians had been killed since the offensive, dubbed operation "Olive Branch," began, Agence France-Presse reported.

More at
https://www.livescience.com/61569-airstrikes-syria-damage-temple.html
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    Re: Airstrikes Blast 3,000-Year-Old Temple in Syria by Andy B on Wednesday, 31 January 2018
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    The original report is here:

    Between January 20 and January 22, 2018 the Turkish Air Force conducted an airstrike on the Early Iron Age temple at Tell Ain Dara, an archaeological site located ca. 5.8 km south of Afrin in Aleppo Governorate. The temple is an important example of Syro-Hittite religious architecture and the most extensively excavated structure of its kind in Syria.

    The temple is elaborately decorated with a series of basalt orthostats with geometric and representational motifs that line its exterior and interior walls. Additionally, the thresholds of the doorways into the antecella and cella contain a unique decoration that consists of two footprints carved into the exterior threshold and a single footprint on each of the two interior thresholds.

    http://www.asor-syrianheritage.org/update-ain-dara/
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Re: Ain Dara by XIII on Monday, 29 January 2018
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Turkish air strikes 'damage ancient Afrin temple'

Turkish air strikes have seriously damaged an ancient temple in Syria's Kurdish-held Afrin region, the Syrian government and a monitoring group say.

Pictures circulated online showed what appeared to be a crater in the centre of the Ain Dara site and rubble where there used to be carved basalt lions.

The Neo-Hittite temple was built by the Arameans in the first millennium BC.

Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels launched an offensive to push a Kurdish militia out of Afrin nine days ago.

About 60% of the temple of Ain Dara, which is 10km (6 miles) south of the city of Afrin, was destroyed on Friday, according to the Syrian Observatory.

Syria's antiquities department, a government agency, denounced the attack, saying it "reflects the hatred and barbarism of the Turkish regime against the Syrian identity and against the past, present and future of the Syrian people".

Former antiquities chief Maamoun Abdul Karim told AFP news agency that the temple was known for its "exceptional" colossal basalt lions.

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