Göbekli TepeLegend T-shaped limestone pillars in circular enclosures, carved with lions, boars, foxes, snakes and vultures, and some with arms, hands and loincloths, so they are figures rather than posts. Built between roughly 9500 and 8000 BC,... Open it on the map · Read the story
Krak des ChevaliersLegend A Crusader castle on a 650-metre hill near Homs, rebuilt by the Knights Hospitaller between 1142 and 1170 over a Kurdish garrison fort of 1031, and extended in the thirteenth century into the concentric double-walled design that... Open it on the map · Read the story
PalmyraLegend A caravan city in the Syrian desert whose merchants ran colonies along the Silk Road, and which in the 260s under Odaenathus and then his widow Zenobia broke with Rome and briefly ran its own empire from a city of over 200,000... Open it on the map · Read the story
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