© UNESCO Filmschätze aus Köln-vom Rhein-Weltfilmerbe Historic City of Palmyra in filmshots from 1978 in many interesting details. The famous Oasis City features Greco-Roman architecture, as well as much older relics. The city was badly damaged during the current Syrian civil war..In May 2015, the city has been taken by military forces of the totalitarian movement “islamic state”, the […]

  By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Published: December 19, 2011 In its time and place, the ancient city of Dura-Europos had much in common with today’s most cosmopolitan urban landscapes. Religious, linguistic and cultural diversity characterized much of the city’s life for more than 500 years, starting at the outset of the third century B.C. in what is now Syria. Greek, […]

Zenobia (240– c. 274 AD) was a 3rd century Syrian queen of the Palmyrene Empire Queen Zenobia’s Last Look Upon Palmyra, by Herbert Schmalz. Original on exhibit, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Family, ancestry and early life Zenobia was born and raised in Palmyra, Syria. Her Roman name is Iulia Aurelia Zenobia, while her name […]

Dura Europos (“Fort Europos”) is a ruined Hellenistic-Roman walled city built on cliff 90 meters above the banks of the Euphrates river. It is located near the village of Salhiyé, in today’s Syria. Destroyed by war and abandoned in the 3rd century AD, it lie hidden until its rediscovery in 1920. Excavations have revealed, among other important ruins, the oldest […]

  Berea in Easton’s Bible Dictionary: a city of Macedonia to which Paul with Silas and Timotheus went when persecuted at Thessalonica (Acts 17:10, 13), and from which also he was compelled to withdraw, when he fled to the sea-coast and thence sailed to Athens (14, 15). Sopater, one of Paul’s companions belonged to this city, and his conversion probably took […]

A collection of Hellenistic coins dating back to the era of Alexander the Great were found near Najm Castle in the Manbej area in Aleppo governorate (northern Syria ). The coins were found by a local man as he was preparing his land for construction, uncovering a bronze box that contained around 250 coins. He promptly delivered the coins to […]

Turkey embraces its Islamic friends Daniel Pipes | October 28, 2009 Article from: The Australian “THERE is no doubt he is our friend,” Turkey’s Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says of Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as he accuses Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman of threatening to use nuclear weapons against Gaza. These outrageous assertions point to the profound change […]

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. Tetradrachm Sale: Nomos 1, Lot: 117. Closing Date: Tuesday, 5 May 2009. BID Estimate CHF50000 SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. Tetradrachm (17.06 g 3), Susa, circa 304-298/7. Bust of Alexander the Great as Dionysos to right, wearing helmet covered with a panther skin and adorned with a bull’s […]

Quote: The principal geographical discoveries of our traveller, are the nature of the country between the Dead Sea and the gulf of Aelana, now Akaba;- the extent, conformation, and detailed topography of the Haouran;-the site of Apameia on the Orontes, one of the most important cities of Syria under the Macedonian Greeks; Quote: When the Macedonian Greeks first became […]