Apollonia (Ancient Greek: ; Hebrew: ), known in the Early Islamic period as Arsuf (Arabic: , romanized: Arsf) and in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem as Arsur, was an ancient city on the Mediterranean coast of today's Israel.

In Israeli archaeology it is known as Tel Arshaf ( ). Founded by the Phoenicians during the Persian period in the late sixth century BCE, it was inhabited continuously until the Crusader period,through the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods, during the latter being renamed to Sozusa (Ancient Greek: , or Sozusa in Palaestina to differentiate it from Sozusa in Libya).

It was situated on a sandy area ending towards the sea with a cliff, about 34 kilometres (21 mi) south of Caesarea.

Very cool. It is neat running around stuff like that.
I had the opportunity to visit both Ur and Urek in Iraq.
The excavations at have 20 to 30 feet of pottery layers...solid! And there are shards laying around on the surface like gravel..

Rabid Cougar said:

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Very cool. It is neat running around stuff like that.
I had the opportunity to visit both Ur and Urek in Iraq.
The excavations at have 20 to 30 feet of pottery layers...solid! And there are shards laying around on the surface like gravel..

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awesome!

during the Iraq war one of my buddies was stationed near to Joseph's Tomb in Babylonia either in Anbar Province or near to Kurdistan

my IPHONE pictures don't do the remnants of Appalonia justice as you can't see the depth perception and that each one of the individual blocks of stone had to be created and moved a great distance...

and to build the entire Crusader city must have taken tens of thousands of block stones.

also it's pretty crazy how much of it has dissapeared, maybe through earthquakes over the last 800 years.