High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ashdod-Yam is an Iron Age archaeological site on the Mediterranean coast of Israel in southern part of the modern city of Ashdod and about 5 kilometres southwest of Tel Ashdod (site of one of the ancient cities of the Philistines). The site is mentioned in documents from the time of Sargon II of Assyria when in 713 BCE the Assyrian king speaks of having to depose an usurper who had taken over control of the city of Ashdod and had fortified it, Gath, and Ashdod-Yam.