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The graffiti found so far are written with the help of Cypro-Mycenaean signs, of which some sixty are known. Their meaning is still mysterious.
A cyclopean rampart made of blocks up to 4m in diameter encircled the city. Its defence was undertaken mainly by archers, as indicated by the oviform clay sling-bullets of which several accumulations were found in the city.
An earthquake devastating the whole coastal zone of Syro-Palestine in the time of Amenophis IV, around 1365, caused serious damage which was moreover promptly repaired.
The activity of the city continued until the beginning of the XIIº century, and was then definitively interrupted for reasons still unknown.
The spacious houses, provided with installations sanitary and hydraulic of a surprising modernism, contain in the basement family burial chambers accessible by underground passages, from the ground floor.
Numerous objects of every kind have been discovered, illustrating material life in this city during its existence of nearly a millennium. The excavations will be resumed in autumn of this year.
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