1200 pieces of flint stones dating back to 250, 000 years ago were unearthed at al-Sharar Valley near Daraa, Southern Syria.

The Syrian Archaeological Expedition working at the site of Palmyra’s northern defensive wall (Central Syria) has unearthed tower tombs  close to the wall.
Head of Palmyra Antiquities Department Walid Asa’ad said Wednesday the square-shaped burial has a two-slab decorated stone gate. The doorway leads to the roof of the burial place through stairs.
The burial site includes a yard with several chambers; each contains six multi-storey tower tombs, he added. Asa’ad indicated that the site was a typical Palmyra ancient burial place, adding that the tower tomb was re-used as a defensive …

The discovery of the temple of the god Hadad in Aleppo Citadel is considered one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the late 20th century, according to an article published by Prof. Paolo Matthiae of Italy.

Cemeteries, public baths and archaeological discoveries were discovered in Daraa city (Southern Syria), all of which were documented in order to trace the actual era and the successive civilizations of this area.
Head of Bosra’s Antiquities Department, Wafa al-Audi said that an ancient tomb was unearthed in a house for a citizen in Daraa dating back to Byzantine Era where three copper bracelets, an iron one in addition to some shards.
Other four tombs with basaltic ground and a stone gate were also found at the same site.
Surveys made by a French …

The Syrian National Excavation Expedition working at Tal al-Kasara archaeological site in Deir Ezzor Province (Northeastern Syria) discovered a 44-meter long mosaic painting.
The painting was found in the cool hall of a bathhouse at the site .It is the first of its kind that was discovered in the Middle Euphrates Region and it represents geometric shapes and fishes with opposite heads.
The site was discovered by the British expedition for the first time in 1849 and a survey was conducted during the French mandate. In 2006, the National Expedition started its …

The Syrian national archaeological team unearthed an important and unique archaeological cemetery dating back to the Romanian era at the village of Ma’rin al-Jabal, southeast of the city of Hama (central Syria).
Chairman of Hama Antiquities Department Jamal Ramadan said in a statement on Wednesday that the excavation works led to the discovery of an old burial site built of calcium stones, including six tombs and 45 ceramic lamps.
He indicated that the studies on the archaeological findings proved that the cemetery dated back to the Romanian era and were re-used in …

They have renamed it the city recovered from the Euphrates and it is found in the Syrian enclave of Tall Qabr on the banks of the river that, with the Tigris, was the centre of the birth of civilisation in Mesopotamia. It is a circularly planned city, dating back to 2,600 years before Christ.
Galician archaeologists from an expedition from the University of Coruna made the discovery, led by Jean Luis Montero, who identified two layers dating back to from the IV to first millennium before Christ.
Since 2008 the multidisciplinary expedition, …

the Syrian-Japanese Archaeological Expedition uncovered 13 individual graves during their work at the private burial chamber number 129 located near the Northern defensive wall of the ancient city of Palmyra.
The graves were used to bury children that apparently were less than two years old when they died. Some of the graves are simple holes in the grounds containing a coffin, in addition to two graves consisting of medium-sized clay jars containing skeletons of children that are estimated to have been only a few months old when they died.
These graves date …

Syria, the land of civilizations and history, is rife with ancient monuments that tell the stories of the many peoples and civilizations that lived in it, whose stories endured in the face of time to tell humanity about their greatness.
“Beneath every footstep in Syria is an ancient civilization,” says Archaeologist Markus Gschwind, head of the Syrian-German Archaeology Expedition working at al-Rafina in Hama. He notes that this saying is repeated around Germany, as most Germans consider Syria the most historically deep-rooted country in the Mediterranean.
In a statement to SANA, Gschwind …

The archaeological excavations at the royal palace in the ancient city of Qatna, north east of the Syrian city of Homs, have once again unfolded a remarkable archaeological discovery. The summer excavations, due to end on the 25th September 2009, located a rock tomb-cellar underneath the palace containing hundreds of artefacts as well as human bones from the period 1600-1400 BC.
In the year 2002, excavations at this site found a tomb with accessibility from the central palace rooms. The present excavation, led by the German-Syrian team of Dr. Michel al-Maqdissi, …