The Early Syria Tour, October 2001

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The Coastal Strip
Ras Ibn Hani
Ugarit (Ras Shamra)

The Hauran
Bosra
Qanawat
Shahba
(Roman Phillipopolis)
Suweida

Orontes Valley
Hama
(ancient Hamath)
Qadesh
(Tell Nebi Mend)
Tell Qarqur
(ancient Karkara)
Qatna (Tell Mishrife)

'Amuq Valley
Alalakh
(Tell 'Atchana)
Tell Judeideh & Catal Huyuk
Tell Ta'yinat

'Afrin Valley
'Ain Dara
The Dead Cities
St. Simeon-Stylites (Qala'at Semaan)

North-Central
Tell Afis
Aleppo (probably ancient Halam)
The Aleppo Citadel
The Aleppo Museum
Ebla (Tell Mardikh)
Tell Rifa'at
(ancient Arpad)

The Syrian Desert
Damascus
Palmyra (Tadmor)

Upper Euphrates
Carchemish
Tell Shoukh Tahtani
Til Barsip
(Tell Ahmar)

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SYRIA MAP
(F. Cobbing, 02, after ‘Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East.’ Michael Roaf, 1966)

Written by Felicity Cobbing, Realized for the Web by Rupert Chapman

The tour did not cover all of Syria; the Middle Euphrates Valley and the Khabor River System, for example, are not described.

Last modified 27/12/2004