Shechem
Ancient city · Canaan
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 32.214, 35.282
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: древний город в Самарии
History
Shechem, also spelled Sichem and other variants, was an ancient city in the Southern Levant. Described in ancient Egyptian inscriptions from the 19th century BC as a part of Retjenu, it is also recorded as a Canaanite city in the 14th century BC Amarna letters.