Around the World March/April 2024
SYRIA
Features January/February 2012
Arab Spring Impacts Archaeology - Libya/Egypt/Tunisia/Syria
o discussion of the year 2011 can be complete without a reference to what's been termed Arab Spring. The political phenomenon has the potential to have an extraordinary impact on archaeology for years to come.
Around the World July 1, 2011
SYRIA
At Tell Kuran there is a 6,000-year-old layer of bones from 100 Persian gazelles. The mound is near a "desert kite," or a stone trap used to drive wild animals together for hunting.
Digs & Discoveries November 1, 2010
Piecing It All Together
n the early 1900s, German banking heir and amateur archaeologist Max von Oppenheim gave up a foreign service career to excavate Tell Halaf, a palace complex built by one of northern Syria's small dynasties around 1200 B.C.
