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Minet el-Beida

Archaeological site located in Syria

Field	Value
name	Minet el-Beida
native_name	المينا البيضا
alternate_name	Ma'hadu
image	Ifpo 22985 Syrie, gouvernorat de Lattaquié, district de Lattaquié, Minet el-Beida, vue aérienne verticale (cropped).jpg
caption	1933 aerial view of Minet el-Beida
map_type	Syria
map_alt	Located on the Mediterranean coast of Syria
map_size	200
location	Latakia, Syria
coordinates
type	settlement, port
built	late fifteenth century BC
epochs	Bronze Age
cultures	Canaanite
dependency_of	Ugarit
event	Bronze Age collapse
excavations	1928—1935
archaeologists	Claude F. A. Schaeffer
ownership	Public
public_access	No

Minet el-Beida (, The White Harbor; or ancient Maʾḫadu) is a small bay located 10 km north of Latakia, Syria on the Mediterranean Sea.

History

Minet el-Beida on the map of localities in the kingdom of Ugarit

It is an important archaeological site because it served as the harbor town and necropolis for Ugarit.

Gallery

File:Duck container Louvre AO14779.jpg|Duck container found at Minet el-Beida File:Mycenaean cup Louvre AO15744.jpg|Mycenaean high-footed cup, 14th-13th centuries BC, imported to Ugarit. Found in the cemetery of Minet el-Beida

References

Bibliography

References

Astour, Michael C.. (1970). "Maʾḫadu, the Harbor of Ugarit". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient.
Michael C. Astour, Ma'Hadu, the Harbor of Ugarit, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 13, iss. 1, pp. 113 – 127, 1970

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