A series of steady excavations over a hundred years starting in the nineteenth century revealed these ruins that date from the 13th Century BC. Kition seems to have been an important site of religious worship and human habitation. Copper smelting was an important industry at the time and Kition might have been a hotspot for it. Following the Mycenean Achaeans, the Phoenicians took over the place are said to have built a magnificent temple to Astarte sometime around 850BC, but this too was destroyed five hundred years later. Unfortunately, for all it’s important history, there isn’t much left to see here. The ruins of the shrine of Astarte, four there small temples and an opium room are the most important structures remaining. You have to be a true archeology or history aficionado to appreciate this place now because the site itself is underwhelming.

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