Google Earth
These are just a few of the many sites in Syria.
Site | Coordinates | Comments |
Amrit | 34 50 17.98N 35 54 23.51E | An amazing site about which very little appears to be known. Look at the pictures associated with it. |
Marqab Castle | 35 09 03.97N 35 56 59.01E | In its heyday, this castle was second only to Krak des Chevaliers for strength - and held out even longer against the Muslim hordes. |
Ugarit - Ras Shamra | 35 36 06.57N 35 46 57.75E | A fascinating site that deserves to be better known. |
Aleppo Citadel | 36 11 57.75N 37 09 46.38E | The citadel is built on top of a tel, which covers Hittite and Syrian remains. |
Ebla | 35 47 54.12N 36 47 53.17E | The picture doesn't do justice to the high mounds which mark the walls around the ancient city. Notice the astonishing den of lions. |
Abandoned city | 35 44 20.69N 36 41 49.91E | The fertile Syrian plains are dotted with abandoned Roman cities, indicating the wealth and population that once existed here. |
Jaredah | 35 43 26.05N 36 42 55.52E | Another abandoned Roman city, about which I have no information. |
Apamea | 35 25 00.71N 36 24 06.69E | One of the largest Roman cities that outdoes Pompeii and Jerash, but is little known because of its location in Syria. |
The road we went up | 35 23 29.69N 36 13 30.55E | I couldn't resist this one: As we drove up the Beqaa Valley I knew that we wanted to get to Latakia and Ugarit, but there didn't appear to be any roads in the line of cliffs to the west. Then I spotted this scar across the cliffs, climbing steeply to the top, and despite my father's protests, drove up it. As you can see in one of the photographs, the road was partly blocked by fallen stone, but we got to the top and wound down to the sea with no signposts - just followed our noses always downward. I was rather pleased with myself. |