Syria's monuments : their survival and destruction /
"Syria's monuments : their survival and destruction examines the fate of the various monuments in Syria (including present-day Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine/Israel) from Late Antiquity to the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. It examines travellers' accounts, mainl...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2016.
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| Series: | Heritage and identity (Series) ;
volume 5. |
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Table of Contents:
- The extent of Syria
- Mapping Syria
- The Syria of yesterday
- The state of Syria in recent centuries
- Governance
- Earthquakes and disease
- Trade
- Circassians and other settlers amongst the monuments
- Nomadic Arabs
- Agriculture and desertification
- Conclusion : impact of Ottoman decline on antiquities
- Travel throughout Syria
- Where to go and how to get there
- Languages, dress and descriptions
- Scholars in the East
- The Bible as a guidebook
- Changing horizons meet the unchanging East
- Biblical monuments "identified"
- Other guidebooks : Baedeker, Cook & Murray
- Confected guidebooks : an example
- Travel then tourism : the agony and the ecstasy
- Taxes and robbery
- Profiteering sheikhs
- Haram/forbidden : access to Muslim sites
- Architectural quality : is Syria worth visiting?
- One-upmanship and verbal wars in travel narratives
- Modernisation changes travelling in the unchanging East
- Conclusion
- The life and death of monuments
- Superstitions and monuments
- Treasure-hunting and locals' knowledge of the past
- Vandalism
- Roads milestones bridges
- Railways
- Aqueducts
- Temples
- Degradation
- Locals and antiquities
- Columns as structural tie-bars
- Mosaics and veneers
- Quarries and marble
- Re-use
- Ancient towns and villages and their houses
- The seabord : harbours and ports north to south
- Iskenderun
- Seleucia Pieria
- Lattakia
- Banias
- Tortosa/Tartus & Ruad
- Tripoli
- Byblos
- Beirut
- Sidon
- Sarepta
- Tyre
- Acre
- Haifa
- Caesarea
- Jaffa
- Ascalon
- Gaza
- Aleppo and the north
- Aleppo
- Antioch
- Cyrrhus & Menbij
- Dead cities
- Apamea & Qalaat Mudiq
- Deir
- Semaan & Saint Simeon
- Hama & Homs
- Qasr Ibn Wardan
- Hosn Suleiman
- Damascus and the centre
- Damascus
- Baalbek
- Palmyra
- Anjar, Medjel Anjar & the nearby temple
- Bosra and the south
- Bosra
- Hauran
- Shahba
- Slim, Hit, Atil
- Suweida
- Qanawat
- Salkhad
- Deraa
- Ledja
- Ezraa
- Burak & Mismiye
- Bashan
- Jaulan / Golan Heights
- Counting the settlements
- West of the River Jordan
- Samaria Janin, Capernaum
- Jerusalem
- Herodium
- Jericho & Hebron
- Tiberias
- Beisan
- Beth Shean / Scythopolis
- East of the River Jordan
- Irbid
- Pella
- Yajuz
- Mmm al-Jimal
- Gadara
- Difficult sites
- Jerash, Amman, & Petra
- Jerash
- Amman
- Um rasas
- Iraq al-Amir
- Madaba
- Petra
- Fortresses Roman, Muslim, Crusader
- Building and rebuilding "Crusader" fortresses
- Saphet
- Shaizar
- Baalbek
- Beirut
- Athlit
- Kerak
- Krak des Chevaliers
- Desert castles
- Qasr el-Hallabat
- Mschatta and nearby antiquities
- Qasr al-Heir west
- Qasr al-Heir east
- Roman fortresses
- Qasr el-Abyad
- Qasr el-Bai'j
- Masada and its siege camps
- Mayhem : archaeology, museums and mandates
- Archaeology
- Digging in Palestine
- Filling western museums
- The First World War and the French mandates
- Conclusion
- Epilogue : the monuments of Syria in 2016
- Syria : timelines
- History of archaeology and travel in Syria
- Recent political/military developments in the region, and their sources
- Websites detailing Syria's monuments
- Damaged sites, monuments and museums
- Photographic evidence of destruction in Syria
- Guides/surveys of monuments and regions
- Computer reconstructions
- Conclusion : warning about "restoration."