During the years of Ottoman rule, Azim's palace was built in Damascus and decorated with intricate, expensive decorat...

This fortress was erected on a hill 30 km from Latakia. The limestone citadel, surrounded by deep ravines and forests...

The Hospitaller Castle of Krak des Chevaliers, founded in 1031. The huge building with seven watchtowers has thick ou...

The ancient city was founded on the banks of the Euphrates in 300 BC by Seleucus I Nicator. It was of great commercia...

At the excavation site, they found a cult building made of unbaked bricks - a ziggurat, as well as fragments of the r...

Area: 636,77002 sq. km., volume: 11600 cubic meters, depth avg: 18,200001 m, shore length: 407,66 m, res time: 183,10...

Some 40 villages grouped in eight parks situated in north-western Syria provide remarkable testimony to rural life in...

Located at the crossroads of several trade routes from the 2nd millennium B.C., Aleppo was ruled successively by the ...

An oasis in the Syrian desert, north-east of Damascus, Palmyra contains the monumental ruins of a great city that was...

Founded in the 3rd millennium B.C., Damascus is one of the oldest cities in the Middle East. In the Middle Ages, it w...

Area: 27,5 sq. km., volume: 200 cubic meters, depth avg: 7,3000002 m, shore length: 31,290001 m, res time: 58,099998,...

These two castles represent the most significant examples illustrating the exchange of influences and documenting the...

Bosra, once the capital of the Roman province of Arabia, was an important stopover on the ancient caravan route to Me...