Monuments of Syria أوابد سورية
A Window on Syria's Past by Ross Burns
The Krak des Chevaliers has no equal among medieval castle remains. Its construction took place over many decades yet it gives every appearance of a perfectly coordinated example of Crusader military architecture. It comprises two rings of fortifications with a ‘keep’ perched over its southern inner battlements. The outlook from the castle gives stunning vistas […]
Jerade, on the eastern edge of the ‘Dead Cities’ or Limestone Massif, formed the outer defences of the villages of the Jebel Riha. Remains include scattered ruins of houses, a fifth century church and a fifth century watchtower. A second tower lies on the northwest side of the ruins. تقع جراده في الطرف الشرقي من […]
This castle of typically Arab design guarded from the south the direct route between Aleppo and Antioch. Lying more or less on the front line of the Muslim-controlled territory of the interior, its eventful history is reflected in the poor state of the remains. Some attempt has been made to repair parts of the structure […]
This isolated and sparsely inhabited village in the remote reaches of the Jebel al-Ala region of the Limestone Massif of northern Syria contains the remarkable underground tomb of Tiberius Claudius Sosander, built in his honour by his father in AD 134. It also includes remains of a monastic complex, located on what may once have […]
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 […]
These monastic remains lie to the west of the Plain west of Sermada on the edge of the Jebel Barisha. .تقع بقايا هذا الدير إلى الغرب من السهول الممتدة غرب سرمدا على طرف جبل باريشا
The deserted Byzantine site of Behyo in the Jebel al-`Ala includes two late churches on the western edge of the village. The smaller example (the ‘East Church’) uses transverse sweeping arches in the style of Qalb Lhozeh. The ‘West Church’, seen here in de Vogue’s reconstructions, is more conventionally divided by two rows of five […]
