National Museum of Damascus

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The National Museum of Damascus is the most important museum in Syria and is located in the capital Damascus. In the building remains from the Early History of the Greco -Roman Antiquity and in the Islamic Middle Ages are shown.

The elongated angular building of the Archaeological Museum is located in a tree-lined garden in the Town Centre in the west of the old town, surrounded by faculties of the University of Damascus and north of the Tekkiye Mosque. After the collections were created from 1919, the building was constructed in 1936 and 1956, and expanded in 1975.

The Museum Garden is home to dozens of stone products from different eras ancient Syria, including statues, mosaics, stone doors and the miniature replica of a Noria (also Naura ), a bucket of Hama. The most important piece of outdoor exhibition is the Originaltor the hunting lodge Qasr al - Heir al - Gharbi, which was built in the 8th century by the Umayyad caliphs of Damascus in the Syrian desert.

Among the most famous exhibits include the murals of the Synagogue of Dura Europos. In addition, clay tablets with the Ugaritic alphabet as well as the reconstruction of the Hypogeum of Yarhai from Palmyra are shown.