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The
honeycomb village built on a very capricious rocky slope, an
altitude of 1625 m. It is the only place left where the
inhabitants still speak Aramaic; the language spoken by Jesus. |
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(2400-1600
B.C.)It was a powerful and a major city in the early Bronze
Age after 1800 BC. It began to decline and finally disappeared
from history until the early sixties and over 15,000 cuneiform
clay tablets were dug up. |
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An
ancient and important city on the western bank of the
Euphrates that goes back to the third millennium B.C. Was
occupied by the Akkadians, Sumerians, Amarites, and was
destroyed in about 1760 B.C. by Hammorabi. |
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(1600-1300
B.C.)Due to the relations between the kings of Ugarite and the
Egyptians, where the first alphabet was invented bearing 30
signs only dating from 1400 B.C. |
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The most
famous and dramatic of the dead cities; the hermit St. Simion
settled here in 412 A.D., he obtained permission to live on
top of a pillar and he did for nearly 42 years surrounded by
pilgrims. The basilica was built in the second half of the 5th
century. |
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One of the
dead cities where stands one of the loveliest ruined churches
in Syria. The three aisled basilicas with a narthex stands in
a wild setting and probably dates from the middle of the 6th
century. |
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The desert
capital of Queen Zenobia (267-272 A.D.) where the emperor
Aurelian himself led an expedition and took Zenobia as a
prisoner to Rome. In the following year the Romans destroyed
Palmyra then the city gradually became deserted. The earliest
surviving building is the temple of Bel 32 A.D., the great
colonnade triumphal arch, museum and the Necropoils. |
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