Editing Melqart (section)

== Historical person ==
Herodotus said that the Temple of Melqart at Tyre had a [[tomb]] in its sanctuary, supporting the theory that involved as he was in the founding mythology of Tyre, perhaps Melqart was based on a real historical person.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Herodotus |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8OdLLZ8S0uAC |title=The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories |date=2009-06-02 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=978-1-4000-3114-6 |language=en}}</ref> Other classical authors say that this supposed Tomb of Melqart was moved to southern [[Spain]], possibly [[Cádiz]].<ref name=":0"/>

In late 2021, archeologists from [[Seville University]] claimed to have located the historical [[Temple of Hercules Gaditanus|Temple of Melqart]] of Spain, which classical authors believed to have contained the supposed Tomb of Melqart, at modern-day [[Sancti Petri]], [[Cádiz]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Spain: Researchers Believe they Found Fabled Temple of Hercules Gaditanus |url=https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/spain-researchers-believe-they-found-fabled-temple-of-hercules-gaditanus?format=amp |access-date=2023-08-03 |website=www.thearchaeologist.org}}</ref>