The pioneers of modern studies of Syrian architecture paid particular attention to this facet ... of the lifestyle in one of the most important eastern provinces of the Roman and later, Byzantine ...

Thus, alongside state institutions, there are locally based architects and researchers establishing independent initiatives to document and conserve aspects of their built heritage. Syria is one ...

Archaeologists within Syria, along with experts abroad ... from the 2,000-year-old Greco-Roman architecture of Palmyra to the world's earliest identified Christian place of worship at Dura ...

a farmer from the Syrian city of Deir Ezzour, last visited the ancient ruins of Palmyra on a school trip as a child. Last week, he strolled with friends past the limestone Roman Theatre and the ...