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Category Archives: History

#NEWPALMYRA Rebuilds Ancient Culture with Digital Tools

November 2, 2015by AW Leave a comment

http://www.newpalmyra.org/ The #NEWPALMYRA project launched a new online community platform and data repository dedicated to the capture, preservation, sharing, and creative reuse of data about the ancient city of Palmyra. […]

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Where Light Dwells

February 15, 2013by AW Leave a comment

Blaine Ellis, Photographer Source: http://archnet.org/library/webpages/blaineellis/ “In the tradition of sacred architecture, light has been a symbol of the transcendent, a metaphor for the unknowable. Sacred space becomes a visual theology, […]

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The Persian Carpet Phenomenon

August 30, 2011by Natai Achmez 3 Comments

Thoughts about Orientalism and Architecture In Orient, Orientalism is a subject of many mixed feeling and variable viewpoints, viewpoints that spread from being considered “The Cultural Side of Western Colonization” […]

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art, History, orientalism
Strabos Map

Looking at Apamia أفاميا through Strabo سترابو

September 19, 2010by AW 17 Comments

Strabos Map Strabo Strabo Strabo (Greek: Στράβων; 63/64 BC – ca. AD 24) was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. Strabo was born to an affluent family from Amaseia in […]

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History, syria, Urban
St Peter's Grotto Church in Antioch

Cave Church of St.Peter Antioch,Syria

August 7, 2010by AW 6 Comments

Antioch on the Orontes, also called Syrian Antioch, was situated on the eastern side of the Orontes River, in the far southeastern corner of Asia Minor. Three hundred miles (480 […]

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architecture, History
Seleucus I Nicator (Louvre)

Syrian Tetrapolis, The Four “sister cities”, المدن السلوقية السورية الأربعة

July 24, 2010by AW 12 Comments

Antioch أنطاكيا,  Seleucia Pieriaسلوقية بييريا,  Apamea أفاميا, Laodicea in Syriaاللاذقية . After Alexander’s death in 323 BC, his generals divided up the territory he had conquered. Seleucus I Nicator سلوقس […]

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History, syria, Urban
The major Hellenistic realms included the Diadoch

“What have the Romans ever done for syria?”

June 24, 2010by AW Leave a comment

In Syria […] the flower of the Hellenic conqueror was settled. […] For the Romans in Syria not much was left to be done as to the increase of urban […]

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History, syria
church of nativity_basilica

EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN SYRIA

April 12, 2010by AW 2 Comments

The Early Christian/Late Antique period is usually defined as beginning in roughly 250 — the later empire beginning with Diocletian, Roman emperor from 284 to 305), but the end of […]

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architecture, History, syria

To … Damascus

February 6, 2010by AW 1 Comment

No record event has occurred in the world but Damascus was in existence to receive the news of it. Go back as far as you will into the vague past, […]

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Damascus, History, syria

Shibam, Yemen

February 3, 2010by AW 16 Comments

Surrounded by a fortified wall, the 16th-century city of Shibam is one of the oldest and best examples of urban planning based on the principle of vertical construction. Its impressive […]

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arab world, History
Architect Great Sinan

Great Sinan”Secrets of Suleymaniye”

February 3, 2010by AW 3 Comments

http://www.greatsinan.com/edu.asp

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architecture, History

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