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Nearly a century ago, Danish archaeologists traveled to the site of the ancient city of Hama, a region that was occupied for close to 8,000 years. Hama, now in modern-day Syria, was first occupied ...
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Tell Tweini, an archaeological site located near the Syrian coastal city of Jableh, contains relics dating back to the early Bronze Age (around 2,600 BCE) and stretching all the way into the Iron ...
Hama, now in modern-day Syria, was first occupied around 6,500 B.C. and was strategically positioned along communication routes that contributed to its longevity into the years of the Ottoman Empire.
Hama, now in modern-day Syria, was first occupied around 6,500 B.C. and was strategically positioned along communication routes that contributed to its longevity into the years of the Ottoman Empire.
Idlib "has a third of the monuments of Syria, containing 800 archaeological sites in addition to an ancient city,” al-Ismail said.
With colleagues from the University of Amsterdam, he co-directed a 16-year-long archaeological dig at Tell Umm-el Marra, one of the first medium-size urban centers that popped up in western Syria.
Syria’s grim human toll—at least 20,000 dead, some 250,000 registered refugees and an estimated 1.2 million internally displaced, according to the UN— has been echoed by devastating attacks ...
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