The fortress was razed in 1589.
In 1761 its walls were razed by the French.
Or they'd have razed the whole mall.
This temple had been razed and a fortress built upon its ruins, in the Greek or Seleucid period, some of the bricks found bearing the inscription in Aramaic and Greek of a certain Hadad-nadin-akhe, king of a small Babylonian kingdom.
Thebes was forced to surrender and razed to the ground.
