Each city Phoenician god of its own this if you do not have many gods. It gods of Zidon the Ashmun god of healing God and the patron saint of Sidon.
And today we find the remains of the great in the orchard known Sheikh grove on a hill above the juncture initial valley from the mouth of the river.
Was this structure consists of wall of a rectangular brown who stones huge court situation is from east to west about 60 meters and width from north to south about 44 meters and this wall was named campus as we see in most temples Semitic In the center was the sacred or shrine gods and around the yard dilated.
Conducted excavations in the structure of Ashmun about 1900 carried out by your Mkrida with engineers from the German mission, which was working in the structures
Baalbek excavations have led to the results are extremely important because Zjd stone temple Phoenician inscriptions of great benefit to Phoenician.
One of the strange things that these inscriptions or writings were not on the face of the stones phenomenon but on her face hidden located above the lower stones so that can be found not only to break stones and credited them. These inscriptions distributed today between museums and the builder of this structure to the Holy God Ashmun and also lists some of the older sections of Sidon. It therefore a very serious historical and archaeological Nahtin.
The suspect that ruined this Ctal happened at the hands of Artaxerxes III, nicknamed Bojos year 348 BC..When Zidon led arose king tennis on the Persian monarch.
The result was a fire this great Phoenician city.
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