Category: Syria

Baalbeck, Lebanon and Palmyra, Syria

by Julian Worker | Jul 8, 2009 | ITKT Blogs, Middle East, Syria | 0 |

Baalbeck, Lebanon’s greatest Roman treasure, can be counted among the wonders of the ancient world. The largest Roman temples ever raised, they are built on an ancient tell that goes back at least to the end of the third...

Krak des Chevaliers, Syria

by Julian Worker | Jul 6, 2009 | Adventure, ITKT Blogs, Middle East, Syria | 0 |

The hill on which Krak des Chevaliers was constructed, was originally the site of a smaller fort called the “Castle on the slope”. The Emir of Homs, who garrisoned his Kurdish soldiers there to protect the Syrian...