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Syria 2010

  Aleppo   Homs   Palmyra   Krak de Chevaliers   Damascus

Aleppo

"Welcome to Syria"

Lush Fields: 24 miles W of Aleppo

Olive Trees: 20 miles W of Aleppo

City Clock Tower

Hafez Assad, Aleppo

Plush Martini Dar Zamaria

Martini Dar Zamaria Traditional interior courtyard

Bab Antakya ("Antioch Gate")

Aleppo Citadel

Citadel on (restored) glacis Om a natural hill

Citadel Entrance Bridge

Citadel Entrance (I)

Citadel Entrance (II)

Citadel Entrance (III) Part of a series of six 90� turns.

Citadel Tower, protecting gate

Citadel interior

Citadel Theater

Rebuilt Throne Room

Armenian Cathedral Tower

Armenian Cathedral: Armenian Genocide Monument

Great Mosque

Aleppo Souk

Aleppo Souk

Aleppo Souk

Splendid Entrance of National Museum

National Museum Hittite Weather God, smiting ungodly

Aleppo street scene

17 miles SW of Aleppo

26 miles SW of Aleppo

52 miles North of Homs

Hafez Assad, 12 miles N of Homs

11 miles North of Homs

Homs

Bashar Assad, Homs

Old wall/gate

Palmyra

Fruit trees, 13 miles SE of Homs

90pct desert, 31 miles W of Palymra

Qala'at ibn Maan (17th c.)

The Great Colonnade

Temple of Bel (32 AD) Inner Cella

Temple of Bel (Interior)

Temple of Bel: Detail

Carving, Temple of Bel

Carving of Camel (Temple of Bel)

Palmyra: Palms

Temple of Bel (Courtyard)

Colonnnade entrance

Colonnade Entrance

Colonnades

Tretrapylon As resurrected by Syrian dept of Antiquities

New outer wall for Theatre Workmen are using tools to "age" new stone.

Theatre Mostly restored original, rebuilt outer circle.

Theater interior

Temple of Baal Shamin (17 AD)

Northern Colonnade

Funerary Temple

"Temple of the Standards" Diocletian's Camp

Tower Tombs (~ 1st c.)

Krak de Chevaliers

Scotsman at Krak de Chevaliers

Outer Walls

Entrance Tower

Entrance: With Arabic Inscriptions

Entrance Passage: for Horsemen

Stables

Inner Wall Tower

Outer Wall

Between outer and inner walls

Inner Keep

Inner Keep

Moat

Moat

Inner Courtyard

Interior

Egptian Theme in Great Hall??

Inner Hall

Damascus

Martyrs Square Note "Medina on a Pillar" monument

Saladin Statue

Fragment of Roman Gate (3rd c.) West gate of Temple of Jupiter

Umayyad Mosque Pious Pligrims + Random Tourist

Umayyad Mosque

Umayyad Mosque Corurtyard

Umayyad Mosque: Interior

Umayyad Mosque: Mosaic

Umayyad Mosque: Mosaic

Umayyad Mosque Old Public Treasury

Tomb of Saladin

Locals, tourists, and pilgrims

Sayyida Ruqayya Mosque Modern Entrance Courtyard

Sayyida Ruqayya Mosque Iranian (?) Pilgrims

Tomb-shrine of Sayyida Ruqayya (A grand-daughter of Ali.)

Roman Arch

"Restored" Damascus Citadel

Azem Palace

Azem Palace

Damascus Hafez Assad

35 m. South of Damscus

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