Mumbaqat
Sign in to saveTall Munbāqa or Mumbaqat, the site of the Late Bronze Age city of Ekalte, is a 5,000-year-old town complex in northern Syria now lying in ruins.
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- archaeological site
- Country
- Syria
- Located in
- Raqqa Governorate
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Site
- History
- Early Bronze
- Middle Bronze
- Late Bronze
- Mitanni period
- Hittite period
- Excavations
- City gates
- References
- Further reading
- External links
- See also
Tall Munbāqa or Mumbaqat, the site of the Late Bronze Age city of Ekalte, is a 5,000-year-old town complex in northern Syria now lying in ruins.
==Site== The ruins are located on a steep slope on the east bank of the upper course of the Euphrates. In the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC the city was an important city-state in the region. Due to the establishment of the Tabqa Dam at Al-Thawrah, 35 kilometers west of Raqqa, the city ruins are partially flooded today by Lake Assad. Situated high above the steep drop of the eastern shore, Tall Munbāqa is still preserved. The Bronze Age site of Tell Hadidi (Azu) lies 5 kilometers to the north. The city-god of Ekalte was Baʿlaka. There are known to have been four temples in the city, three on the high ground by the Euphrates and one at a city gate.
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