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Halabiye (Zenobia)
A ruined fortified city on the Euphrates in eastern Syria — first built by Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra,…
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Syria
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Jarada
A village in Syria that preserves one of the country's Dead Cities, a remarkable abandoned Byzantine and early…
castello-medievale
Krak des Chevaliers – Crusader Fortress, Syria
T. E. Lawrence visited the Krak des Chevaliers in 1909 as a young Oxford student researching his thesis…
National Museum of Syria, Damascus
The National Museum of Syria in Damascus is one of the great repositories of Near Eastern civilisation, housing…
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Old city of Damascus
One of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities, Damascus's walled historic centre preserves layers of empires and features…
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Palmyra
An ancient Syrian caravan city whose Silk Road merchants amassed wealth for monumental temples and tower tombs.
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Palmyra — Syria
Once the Silk Road's richest oasis city and seat of Queen Zenobia's empire, Palmyra bears the scars of…
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Qalb Loze
A Druze village in northwestern Syria preserving a remarkable 5th-century Byzantine church amid the "Dead Cities" of the…
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Qirqbize
A Byzantine settlement in northwest Syria housing the earliest preserved house church after Dura-Europos, revealing early Christian worship…
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