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<< Text Pages >> Zalabiye - Ancient Village or Settlement in Syria

Submitted by bat400 on Wednesday, 11 April 2012  Page Views: 2079

Site WatchSite Name: Zalabiye
Country: Syria
NOTE: This site is 39.502 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Halabiyeh
Latitude: 35.668500N  Longitude: 39.842500E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Ancient Settlement in Deir ez-Zor Governorate.
Zalabiye is a 3rd century fortress, improved in the 6th century by Justinian I. However, the site has an Assyrian component, nearby Broze Age features and a canal dating to the Late Bronze Age.

The site's Byzantine features are heavily damaged and quarried. The site will be inundated when the Halabiyeh hydropower dam begines water containment

Note: Syria upheaval halts race to reveal secrets of ancient fort. See comment.
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Syria upheaval halts race to reveal secrets of ancient fort by bat400 on Wednesday, 11 April 2012
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Archaeologists despair of completing excavation work on site before it is flooded by new dam


Anti-government protests gripping Syria have forced archaeologists to abandon excavation work on ancient ruins on the banks of the Euphrates, with the little-explored sites now at risk of being lost forever when a planned dam floods the area.

Construction on the Halabiyeh hydropower dam begins next year, despite opposition from cultural and environmental experts, leaving a narrow window before many Bronze Age, Roman and Byzantine sites disappear beneath the waters. Archaeologists working on the Byzantine-era fortress of Zalabiyeh say they were on the cusp of finding out why the citadel was abandoned in the 8th century, but as the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad gathers pace and the regime unleashes its forces to crush it, the experts have been forced to pull out.

Dr Emma Loosley, an archaeologist and art historian with the University of Manchester, was invited by Syria's Department of Antiquities to work on the site. She said Zalabiyeh overlooked the narrowest point in the Euphrates, and was on a vital trading route.

"It contains evidence of continuous human settlement through many civilisations including the Assyrian, Roman, Arab – it is an astonishing area to work in and one of the most important in the world," she said. The fortress provided a perfect "time capsule" of day-to-day life at the end of the Byzantine era and during early Muslim expansion across what is now the Arab world.

Spanish archaeologists were working further upstream on a Bronze Age site and French teams had been trying to find ways to protect the larger settlement of Halabiyeh on the opposite bank, a complex of 3rd-century ruins already starting to attract tourists. A report in 2008 for Unesco, the UN cultural body, warned that the dam would cause water levels to rise by 14 metres (46ft), submerging a third of the site.
Dr Loosley's team had determined that a fire swept through Zalabiyeh. They were due to start examining whether it was caused by accident or attack when they were told by the Syrians to cancel this year's trip, as protests that began in March spread inland. Up to 50 people were reported killed in August in the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, the gateway to the archaeological sites.

Thanks to coldrum for the link. For more, see the article in http://www.independent.co.uk By Charlotte McDonald-Gibson.
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