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. […]
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, […]
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” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Art & Architecture in the Arab world 