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Lehun

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: S.T. Parker
Contributors: R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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Last modified Mar 08, 2023 11:41 AM — History
An ancient site located on the northern plateau of the Wadi Mujib in modern Jordan. Under excavation since the 1970s, the site has so far provided evidence for human activity from the prehistoric period through the Islamic.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697695

31.459066, 35.847851
    • al-Lahūn (Modern Standard Arabic, AD 1918 - AD 2000)
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sanctuary (religious center), fort, settlement, mosque, church

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 71 B3 Lehun

Alternate modern names, following the excavators' website:

  • Lahun
  • al-Lahun
  • Khirbet Lahun

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S.T. Parker, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Lehun: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697695> [accessed: 02 February 2025] 

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