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<< Text Pages >> Ekalte - Ancient Village or Settlement in Syria

Submitted by AlexHunger on Sunday, 23 July 2006  Page Views: 4752

Multi-periodSite Name: Ekalte
Country: Syria Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Aleppo  Nearest Village: Tall Munbaqa
Latitude: 36.228060N  Longitude: 38.129720E
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
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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.
no data 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
no data
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early Bronze age site in what is now Syria. The setlment would have been later part of the Hittite empire and then the Assyrian empire. The town was even devastated by Thuthmose III in one of his campaigns against the Hittites.
The are has been excavated the Technische Universität harburg, in Hamburg.
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