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Ain Dara near Aleppo, Syria

''Ain Dara is most famous for the extraordinary Aramaean temple, which crowns its acropolis. The temple, dating from 1300 to 740 BC. Ain Dara was first established and founded as a principality in the northern region of Syria after the invasion of the ''Sea Peoples'' in the first millennium BC. It then fell into the hands of the Greeks under the Seleucid Empire and later on was occupied by the Umayyads.''

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Uploaded on June 19, 2007
Taken on February 4, 2005