Deir ez-Zor Museum

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The Museum of Deir ez- Zor is the archeology and history of the al -Jazeera museum dedicated. It is located in Deir ez- Zor, capital of the eponymous province in Syria. At its founding in 1974, it was housed in the gallery of a shopping hall, in 1983 it moved into a 1930 built courthouse. 1996 could be moved into its own building in which it is located today. This building was built in a Syrian- German joint project.

In this building, approximately 1600 square meters of exhibition space are available, which is arranged in several halls around a courtyard. His collection, which began with 140 objects as a gift of the National Museum of Damascus consists today of about 25,000 objects, including the majority of the clay tablets from Mari. There are also finds from the upper Khabur Triangle of Tell Beydar, Tell Brak, Tell Leilan and Tell Mozan. From the lying south of Deir ez- Zor part of the Euphrates river originate discoveries of classical antiquity from the former Roman border city of Dura Europos.

The collection is divided into five themes:

• Prehistory
• Ancient Syria (late Chalcolithic to the 1st millennium BC)
• Classical Antiquity
• Islamic history
• Ethnology.

The museum has some reconstructions of different buildings located in the assumed size, including a house of PPNB - locality of Bouqras on the Euphrates, the Early Bronze Age city gate of Tell Bderi on the Khabur, the southern facade of the so-called " Palm Court " from the Palace of Zimri- Lim in Mari and the gate of the Umayyad castle of Qasr al - Heir al - Scharki from the 8th century.