An impressive fortified city east of Homs in Syria. Excavation has found evidence of 3rd-millennium bc occupation, but the fortifications — consisting of a free-standing plaster-faced glacis (bank) — belong to the Middle Bronze Age in the early 2nd millennium bc and were probably constructed by the Hyksos. The fortifications of this period enclosed more than 100 hectares.
The Macmillan dictionary of archaeology, Ruth D. Whitehouse, 1983Copied