| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Syria |
City / Town : Afamea
Site / Event : Greek Ruins
|
 |
The ruins date from 300 BCE.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Afamea
Site / Event : Greek Ruins
|
 |
Afamea was a member of the Greek Decapolis, a collective of city states.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Afamea
|
 |
Beduin man on his motorcycle.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Afamea
|
 |
A Beduin family in their tent just outside the village.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Afamea
Site / Event : Citadel
|
 |
View of the citadel.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Afamea
Site / Event : Citadel
|
 |
Stone house.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Afamea
Site / Event : Citadel
|
 |
Horse on the steep streets of the citadel.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Afamea
Site / Event : Citadel
|
 |
House front.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Afamea
Site / Event : Citadel
|
 |
Street scene.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Afamea
Site / Event : Citadel
|
 |
View of the lower town from the citadel.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Afamea
Site / Event : Citadel
|
 |
View of the ferile valley.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Afamea
Site / Event : Citadel
|
 |
View of the Greek city.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Afamea
|
 |
Landscape around Afamea.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Afamea
|
 |
Dry countryside.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Afamea
|
 |
The Orontes River is the site of an ancient battle between the Egyptians and the Hittites.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
|
 |
Bosra is a Roman town once inhabited by Canaanites, Amorites and Nabateans.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
|
 |
Bosra is still inhabited with the original Roman houses among the ruins of the ancient city.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
|
 |
Bosra dates from the 14th century BCE.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
|
 |
People still live in the Roman houses in the ancient city.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
|
 |
Houses built alongside Roman columns.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
|
 |
The main street.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
|
 |
The Mosque of Omar (720) is decorated with Greek, Roman and Nabatean columns.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
|
 |
Detail of a wall mosaic.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
|
 |
Ruins of a Byzantine cathedral from 513.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
|
 |
The Nabatean Gate.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
Site / Event : Roman Theatre
|
 |
The ancient city contains a suberbly preserved Roman theatre made from black basalt.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
Site / Event : Roman Theatre
|
 |
Inside the theatre.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
Site / Event : Roman Theatre
|
 |
The theatre is not built into a hillside like most Roman theatres.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
Site / Event : Roman Theatre
|
 |
Courtyard with arches.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
Site / Event : Roman Theatre
|
 |
Carved columns and windows.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
|
 |
A Roman temple.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
|
 |
People still live along the main street.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
|
 |
Roman columns.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
|
 |
4th century Byzantine basilica.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
|
 |
The main street.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
|
 |
Street scene.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
|
 |
People still live in the Roman city.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
|
 |
Woman in a garden outside the old city.
|
1986 |
| Syria |
City / Town : Bosra
|
 |
Family at their house.
|
1986 |
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