Temple of Ain Dara Ain dara, Aleppo, Syrien #

Temple of Ain Dara
Temple of Ain Dara, April 2009, © Gerhard Huber, under CC BY-NC 4.0 +Edu

Not far from the Church of Saint Simeon Stylites a shepherd made a chance discovery in 1954. It was a sensation: up till then the hill of Ain Dara was unnoticed, but inside a temple complex from the 10th century B.C. was found.

Unweit des Simeonsklosters brachte 1954 der Zufallsfund eines Hirten eine kleine Sensation zutage: Der bisher unbeachtete Hügel von Ain Dara barg eine Tempelanlage aus dem 10. vorchristlichen Jahrhundert.