Monuments of Syria أوابد سورية
A Window on Syria's Past by Ross Burns
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There are two sets of church remains in the vicinity of Deir al-Salib (‘Monastery of the Cross’). Just at the entrance to the village (north side) lies the church dubbed by Butler ‘West church’. Much of the structure including the semi-domed apse and the side walls survive along with a mausoleum structure on the northwest […]
In the mountainous Qalamoun area straddling the highway north from Damascus to Homs lies the small monastery of St Moses the Egyptian. Neglected for many centuries, the monastery was restored from the 1980s through the energy and dedication of the Italian Jesuit, Fr Paolo dell’Oglio. The monastery was originally founded in the sixth century but […]
The monastic settlement at Telanissos at the foot of the ridge where the Church of St Simeon was later built, was the original monastic centre which St Simeon the Style left to take up his isolated position away from the distractions of the community. The centre flourished from the late fifth century with the fame […]
The modern town of Dera`a (Deraa), lies on the Syrian side of the Jordanian/Syrian border, with a Bronze Age citadel hill lying above the ravine of the Wadi Zedi, a tributary of the River Yarmuk. The classical city of Adraha lay to the south of the grid-plan Ottoman town and is marked by a number […]
This remarkably intact Roman religious shrine of unusual design was dedicated to Zeus Hypsistos in AD 245. يعتبر من أكمل معابد العصر الروماني، ويتميز بمخططه الغريب، وقد اكتمل بناؤه عام 245 وخصص للإله زيوس هيبيستوس (العالي).
Dura-Europos is a fortress city originally established by the Greeks to protect the river route along the Euphrates. It was probably not established within its extended walls until the second century BC but fell under Parthian control early in the next century. The city was taken by the Romans under Trajan in AD 115. Though […]
Ebla (Tell Mardikh) has produced a mine of new information on the status of Syria in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, filling in a significant part of the picture previously unknown from the historical record. قدمت إيبلا منجماً من المعلومات التي أضاءت تاريخ سورية في أواخر العصر البرونزي وبدايات العصر الحديدي، وكشفت عن جوانب […]
