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Arslan Tash, ancient Hadātu, is an archaeological site in northern Syria. It was the center of an Aramean Iron Age kingdom, which were conquered by Assyria in the 9th century BC. The site of Arslan Tash was explored by the French archaeologist François Thureau-Dangin in the 1920s and 30s. He discovered a city with a palace, surrounded by city walls and gates adorned with lions carved from stone. The most important discoveries from Arslan Tash were however the ivory objects of high artistic quality which today are kept at the Archaeological Museum in Aleppo and in the Louvre. The Arslan Tash ivories are also focused in Old Testament studies.
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