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Views of artefacts in the garden of Damascus National Museum
Views of the garden of the National Museum in Damascus that is used to display primarily Classical and Late Antique sculpture, sarcophagi and architectural elements.
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Basalt, Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Late Antique, Limestone, Roman, Sculpture, Syria
Trench 3, end of excavation shots
These images were taken on the final day of the excavation season.
Type: Archaeological Excavation
Tags: Archaeological Excavation, Archaeology, Byzantine, Euphrates, Syria, Umayyad, Zalabiyeh
Test pit looking for sterile soil in trench 3
This test trench was dug at the westernmost end of trench 3 to confirm that there was no earlier occupation level under the Byzantine era dwelling.
Type: Archaeological Excavation
Tags: Archaeological Excavation, Archaeology, Byzantine, Syria, Umayyad, Zalabiyeh
Trench 3, fourth extension
This was the final extension to the trench and details such as thresholds, doorposts and a tannour (clay oven) were revealed.
Type: Archaeological Excavation
Tags: Archaeological Excavation, Archaeology, Byzantine, Euphrates, Syria, Tannour, Umayyad, Zalabiyeh
Trench 3, third extension
This was the third extension to trench 3.
Type: Archaeological Excavation
Tags: Archaeological Excavation, Archaeology, Byzantine, Euphrates, Syria, Umayyad, Zalabiyeh
Trench 3, second extension
These pictures are taken some days after the last images and show the second extension to the trench, by which point it was clear that the trench was uncovering a street of terraced one room dwellings.
Type: Archaeological Excavation
Tags: Archaeological Excavation, Archaeology, Byzantine, Euphrates, Syria, Umayyad, Zalabiyeh
Trench 3, first extension
The trench overseen by the DGAM expanded rapidly and this is the first of a series of extensions that were added to the trench as it was extended to reveal a row of simple houses.
Type: Archaeological Excavation
Tags: Archaeological Excavation, Archaeology, Byzantine, Euphrates, Syria, Umayyad, Zalabiyeh
Trench 3, Context 1
These pictures are of the northernmost trench opened and overseen by Yaarob Abdallah of the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums (DGAM). The photographs record the first phase of his work.
Type: Archaeological Excavation
Tags: Archaeological Excavation, Archaeology, Byzantine, Euphrates, Syria, Umayyad, Zalabiyeh
Umayyad Mosque Aleppo 1992
These pictures were taken in December 1992 and show the Umayyad Mosque of Aleppo. The famous minaret of the mosque has since been destroyed in fighting during the Syrian civil war.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Aleppo, Minaret, Mosque, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Umayyad, Umayyad Mosque
Triumphal Arch halfway along the Street Called Straight 1992
This photograph was taken in December 1992 and shows the point halfway along the "Street Called Straight" in Damascus (mentioned in Acts 9:11) where there is a definite bend in the road.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Damascus, Roman, Street Called Straight, Syria, Triumphal Arch