Tell Kazel is recognized as the sole extant site on the Syrian coast linked to the ancient city of Simyra, which played a pivotal role in the development of early civilizations along the eastern Mediterranean littoral. The site is referenced in the Amarna Letters and functioned as a significant commercial hub during the Late Bronze Age.<\/p>\n
The site encompasses a major sanctuary dating to the Late Bronze Age, featuring statuary, seals, and an imported Cypriot ceramic assemblage. Archaeological investigations have also revealed architectural remains from the Iron Age, alongside a large necropolis attributed to the Hellenistic period.<\/p>\n
Conservation status: The site is in a good state of preservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tell Kazel is recognized as the sole extant site on the Syrian coast linked to the ancient city of Simyra, which played a pivotal role in the development of early civilizations along the eastern Mediterranean littoral. The site is referenced in the Amarna Letters and functioned as a significant commercial hub during the Late Bronze Age. The site encompasses a major sanctuary dating to the Late Bronze Age, featuring statuary, seals, and an imported Cypriot ceramic assemblage. Archaeological investigations have also revealed architectural remains from the Iron Age, alongside a large necropolis attributed to the Hellenistic period. Conservation status: The site is in a good state of preservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,294],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-3600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical-landmarks-tartus","category-tartus","tag-preserved-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}