Treks and Travels Syria

Syria

As with my lecture on Libya in March, we’ll look at the remarkable accomplishments of the area before and during Greek and Roman antiquity: Damascus and Aleppo, rival claimants to the title of the world’s longest continuously-inhabited city; Christian churches where congregants pray in ancient Aramaic; a remote Roman fort on the Euphrates River; and the famous (and beautiful) caravan city of Palmyra.

But the war has not been kind to these ancient marvels: many have been partially or completed destroyed during the war and will probably never be rebuilt. So here is a “trigger warning:” we’ll also briefly look at the current condition of some of these monuments.

Presenter: John Humphrey

Free for members, $5 charge at the door for non-members. Guests are welcome. No registration required.

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