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Tell Ashtara

Al-Shaykh Saad, Syria

Tell Ashtara is an archaeological mound south of Damascus. The Bronze Age city that once stood here may have been mentioned in the Amarna letters correspondence of 1350 BC as Aštartu, and is usually identified with the Biblical city of Ashtaroth.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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