
Understanding Syria through 40 Monuments
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Given the last 12 years of savage conflict, the author reports too on the plight of many of these monuments, addressing the common but unhelpful assumption that much of the country's archaeological treasures have been 'destroyed'. A better approach is to recognise that Syria's heritage can play a role in the country's recovery and cannot simply be declared a write-off.
This is a history which tells us much about how Syria's mixture of traditions defy simplistic categorisation through modern definitions of cultures and identities.
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Author's preface
Map of Syria
1. Bronze Age palace cultures c3000-1100 BC
2. Iron Age, a new melting pot 1000-800 BC
3. Between Persians and Phoenicians c1000-333 BC
4. After Alexander 333-64 BC
5. Pax Romana 64 BC-AD 117
6. Hadrian and the High Empire 117-313
7. Christianity Triumphant 313-636
8. Umayyads and 'Abbasids 661-950
9. Arabs and Turks 950-1100
10. Pushing back the Crusaders 1100-1260
11. Mamluks 1260-1516
12. Early Ottoman centuries 1516-1800
13. Late Ottoman centuries 1800-1918
14. Afterword
Reading List and Quotation Sources
Glossary, Abbreviations, Map Conventions
Index
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