El-Qitar: A Bronze Age Fortress on the Euphrates

by Thomas McClellan

Located along the River Euphrates, in modern-day Syria, el-Qitar was a mountain fortress of the Middle Bronze Age. Excavations, fully analysed in this volume for the first time, revealed extensive fortifications, with two city gates, multiple towers, a fosse, an earthen rampart, and casemate walls, in addition to a public building lined with orthostats of the Middle Bronze Age. After a short time, the site was abandoned and, following a gap of several...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2503579957
• ISBN13: 9782503579955
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 4.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.4" x 11.0"