Minet el-Beida | |
Native Name: | المينا البيضا |
Alternate Name: | Ma'hadu |
Map Type: | Syria |
Map Alt: | Located on the Mediterranean coast of Syria |
Map Size: | 200 |
Location: | Latakia, Syria |
Coordinates: | 35.607°N 35.776°W |
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 (ar|المينا البيضا, The White Harbor; or ancient Maʾḫadu[1]) is a small bay located 10km (10miles) north of Latakia, Syria on the Mediterranean Sea.[2]
It is an important archaeological site because it served as the harbor town and necropolis for Ugarit.