Khirbet Mazin
Khirbet Mazin is an archaeological site on the shore of the Dead Sea.History
Khirbet Mazin consists of the ruins of a fortress and anchorage on the inlet north of Kidron stream. The site was called Khirbet Mazin by the first archaeologists after the name of a nearby wadi. It was later called Qasr el-Rubai and identified with Qasr el-Yahud or Khirbet el-Yahud.
The older part of ruins date to the end of the First Temple Period according to the 8th - 7th centuries BCE Israelite pottery found there. The fortress was enlarged and a dry dock was added during the Hasmonean times as part of their policy to rule the Dead Sea shores. Bronze coins and scraps from a shipwreck were founds outside of the anchorage.
