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The National Museum of Damascus (Arabic: الْمَتْحَفُ الْوَطَنِيُّ بِدِمَشْقَ) is a museum in the heart of Damascus, Syria.As the country's national museum as well as its largest, this museum covers the entire range of Syrian history over a span of over 11 millennia. [2]
National Museum of Damascus. This is a list of museums in Syria. [1] National Museum of Damascus; National Museum of Aleppo; National Museum of Latakia; National Museum of Tartous; National Museum of the Arts and Popular Traditions of Syria; Palmyra Museum; Deir ez-Zor Museum; Raqqa Museum; Homs Museum; Idleb Museum; As-Suwayda Museum ...
In the National Museum of Damascus, archaeologist Muntajab Youssef works on an ancient stone bust from Palmyra, one of hundreds of artefacts his team is painstakingly restoring after they were ...
These paintings are now displayed in the National Museum of Damascus. Dura-Europos was a small garrison and trading city on the river Euphrates, and usually on the frontier between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Parthian and finally the Sassanid Empires of Persia. It changed hands at various points but was Roman from 165 AD.
The Citadel of Damascus (Arabic: قلعة دمشق, romanized: Qalʿat Dimašq) is a large medieval fortified palace and citadel in Damascus, Syria. It is part of the Ancient City of Damascus , which was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.
The statue was moved to Damascus in 2016, where it underwent complete restoration. [10] On 1 October 2017, it was fully restored, and is currently on display in the National Museum of Damascus , until safety is assured in Palmyra to move it there again.
National Museum, Damascus. Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi is one of a number of Umayyad desert castles in the Syrian/Jordanian region. The site originally consisted of a palace complex, a bath house, industrial buildings for the production of olive oil, an irrigated garden and another building which scholars suggest may have been a caravanserai .
One stone remains from the Aramaean temple, dated to the rule of King Hazael, and is currently on display in the National Museum of Damascus. [1] The Temple of Hadad-Ramman continued to serve a central role in the city, and when the Roman Empire conquered Damascus in 64 BCE, they assimilated Hadad with their own god of thunder, Jupiter. [2]