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Syria

Features/Issue 111/Syria

Facing the Palmyrenes

What can an extraordinary group of sculptures commemorating the dead reveal about ancient life in Palmyra? Thousands of ancient inhabitants’ portraits once…

Asia/Iraq/Issue 87/Issues/Jordan/News/Syria

Hope through heritage

Before September, the people in this picture had never picked up a chisel. Now, only a few months into World Monument Fund’s…

Issue 54/Syria

Syria: Cultural heritage in conflict

As the conflict in Syria escalates, Emma Cunliffe reports for CWA on the damage being done to the country’s heritage.…

Issue 52/Features/Syria

Syria: Tell Brak

Civil unrest, violent clashes, an oppressive authority: we could be talking about Syria today. But this is 6,000 years ago, during the…

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Issue 51/Syria

Syria: Upheavals halt excavations

Archaeologists in Syria have been forced to pull out of the country because of civil unrest, with protesters opposing the government of…

Issue 49/Exhibition/Syria

Dura-Europos

A new exhibition in New York reveals the secrets of another strikingly cosmopolitan city, one with a long and turbulent past.…

Issue 38/Features/Syria

Gas Warfare at Dura-Europos

Romans versus Persians - a gruesome story of gas warfare at the ancient siege site of Dura-Europos…

Issue 32/Syria

Restoration of Syria’s Medieval Castles

Aga Khan to restore Syria's medieval castles…

Issue 31/Syria

Dramatic end for Syrian acrobat

Archaeologists investigate the mysterious death of an acrobat who met his end around 2300 BC…

Issue 30/Features/Syria

City of Sweyhat

How did the city of Sweyhat thrive in the Mesopotamian outback?…

Issue 27/Features/Syria

Jerablus and the Land of Carchemish

The site of Jerablus Tahtani, which rises up in the Uruk period, becomes strongly fortified in the Early Bronze Age, but is…

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Issue 15/Features/Syria

Qatna, Syria

Peter Pfalzner, of the University of Tubingen writes of the extraordinary Brinze Age royal tombs at Qanta…

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