Temple of Zeus Kyrios/Baal-Shamin
Ruins · Syria
- Abandoned
- 256
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 34.745, 40.728
Why it was abandoned
☢️ Disaster
Detected automatically from the text: Earthquake of 160 CE at Dura-Europos
History
The Temple of Zeus Cyrius stood in the city of Dura-Europos (Syria) and The construction of the original temenos is dated by the inscriptions above its altar and on its cult reliefs to the end of the second decade of the first century after Christ. It was excavated in 1934 by a joint French-American expedition.