Die Neandertaler und wir
Die Neandertaler bilden die Menschenart, die unserer Art, Homo sapiens, dem „modernen Menschen“, wie die Anthropologen sagen, am nächsten steht. Sie lebten lange Zeit an denselben Orten und zur selben Zeit wie wir.
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New inscription on the Urgent Safeguarding List of #IntangibleHeritage: Traditional Syrian glassblowing, #Syria 🇸🇾.
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The first bioengineered hybrid animals discovered in ancient Mesopotamia
Kungas, a mix of female donkeys and male Syrian asses, expensive animals that were bred 4,500 years ago in Mesopotamia, at least 500 years before horses were bred for the purpose, a new study reveals.
Cuneiform terracotta tablets, ca. 1400 BC, Qatna, Syria. 63 cuneiform tablets were discovered in 2002, in a subterranean corridor. They were covered by the burned remains of several roofbeams. Maybe they were hidden during the Hittite invasion.
سوريا: من أقدم مناطق الاستيطان في العالم
سكن الإنسان شمال غرب #سوريا منذ أزمنة بعيدة تعود إلى العصر الحجري القديم، وترك آثارًا تدل على وجوده المبكر. وقد اكتُشفت أقدم منشأة معمارية داخل كهف هناك، يعود تاريخها إلى حوالي الألف الثاني عشر قبل الميلاد. كما وُجدت دلائل على استيطان قديم
كنوز سوريا: هل دُمرت ونُهبت وقريبًا ستتم استعادتها؟
”لقد عانى التراث الثقافي السوري الذي يعود تاريخه إلى آلاف السنين من
��ضرار جسيمة نتيجة الحرب الدائرة في سوريا منذ عام 2011، ولكن هناك أمل في ترميمه والحفاظ عليه في المستقبل“.
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Youssef Kanjou "confirm[ed]" that "the Assad family" had been "involved" in "illegal excavations" of antiquities via "a network facilitated by the secret police". At least around Aleppo, "most" had been "protected" by "regime's secret police". @benkorayerdogan v @ChasingAphrodit
In an interview with Türkiye Today, former Aleppo National Museum Director accuses Assad's regime of illegal excavations and looting of Syria's cultural heritage
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A well-preserved mosaic of a lion has been unearthed in northwestern Türkiye. The new discovery is in the ancient city of Prusias ad Hypium, once home to a number of cultures