Still inhabited today, the ancient city of Bosra,which dates back in early Bronze Age, rose to prominence in the 1st century C.E. when the last Nabatean king moved his capital from Petra to Bosra to take advantage of international trade routes. Visit well-preserved Nabatean, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic remains as well as the remains of a Roman theater, one of most complete in the world. On our way to Krak de Chavelier, we visit Chabba (Philliopolis), Qanawat where the Christian church is comparable in size to Hagia Sophia, and the 3,000-year-old village of Ma’lula, where the mother tongue of Jesus and the disciples is still spoken. Overnight at Krak des Chevaliers. (B,D)
Roman bathhouses discovered in the archaeological city of Bosra are said to have played a very important role in the social life of the inhabitants during the Roman reign.
Director of Bosra Antiquities Department Wafaa al-Audi said expanding the first part of the bathhouses in the 3rd century AD indicates the increase in the number of citizens at that time, Global Arab Network reported.
She revealed the chambers contained suitable basins while the walls were covered with marble slabs and decorated with wall paintings, and the floor was also furnished with marble boards or mosaic paintings.
Clay pieces and tools found at the site prove that the bathhouses witnessed a stage of restoration and precise organization in the 4th and 5th centuries AD while an external square was built in the 6th century.
A number of commercial shops were also built over the streets surrounding the bathhouses in the 12th and 13th centuries AD.
The walls of the bathhouses contained pipes of hot water and air on which there were windows closed with double wooden shutters form the outside while they were closed with colourful glass from the inside.
Glass-made open basins were put inside the gypsum between brick-made bases while the domes were built on the walls.
At the western part of the northern square of the bathhouses, the expedition unearthed the basis of the external part of the bathhouses’ wall, which consists of rectangular stones of different sizes.
At the external part in the northern side of the bathhouses, a spillway for the salty water of the Roman bathhouses was unearthed, at the end of which a huge amount of Byzantine clay pieces were found.
The wall constitutes a roof for the spillway with a length of 8, 5 meters.
There were three public bathhouses in Bosra City, which provided massage service for the people.
According to the archaeological findings, the bathhouses date back to the Bronze Age and later, the Iron Age, and were built in line with the Nabataean architectural style, and used as bathhouses in the middle of the 2nd century AD. (ANI)
Roman bathhouses discovered in the archaeological city of Bosra are said to have played a very important role in the social life of the inhabitants during the Roman reign.
Director of Bosra Antiquities Department Wafaa al-Audi said expanding the first part of the bathhouses in the 3rd century AD indicates the increase in the number of citizens at that time, Global Arab Network reported.
She revealed the chambers contained suitable basins while the walls were covered with marble slabs and decorated with wall paintings, and the floor was also furnished with marble boards or mosaic paintings.
Clay pieces and tools found at the site prove that the bathhouses witnessed a stage of restoration and precise organization in the 4th and 5th centuries AD while an external square was built in the 6th century.
A number of commercial shops were also built over the streets surrounding the bathhouses in the 12th and 13th centuries AD.
The walls of the bathhouses contained pipes of hot water and air on which there were windows closed with double wooden shutters form the outside while they were closed with colourful glass from the inside.
Glass-made open basins were put inside the gypsum between brick-made bases while the domes were built on the walls.
At the western part of the northern square of the bathhouses, the expedition unearthed the basis of the external part of the bathhouses’ wall, which consists of rectangular stones of different sizes.
At the external part in the northern side of the bathhouses, a spillway for the salty water of the Roman bathhouses was unearthed, at the end of which a huge amount of Byzantine clay pieces were found.
The wall constitutes a roof for the spillway with a length of 8, 5 meters.
There were three public bathhouses in Bosra City, which provided massage service for the people.
According to the archaeological findings, the bathhouses date back to the Bronze Age and later, the Iron Age, and were built in line with the Nabataean architectural style, and used as bathhouses in the middle of the 2nd century AD. (ANI)
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A team of archaeologists has unearthed cemeteries, public baths and other archaeological discoveries in Daraa city, Southern Syria.According to the Global Arab Network, Wafa al-Audi, head of Bosra’s Antiquities Department, said that an ancient tomb was unearthed in a house for a citizen in Daraa dating back to Byzantine Era where three copper bracelets, an iron one in addition to some shards.
Other four tombs with basaltic ground and a stone gate were also found at the same site.
Surveys made by a French archaeological mission uncovered the northern part of the Nabataean Cathedral in Bosra while other surveys unearthed some parts of Trajan Palace’s private bath.
National expedition continued its work in Bosra uncovering bathhouses in an attempt to know its chronological development.
At the site of Kherbet-hamha, foundations of monks’ building, oil-presses and fluid reservoirs were found in addition to some shards of pottery which indicate that they belong to the era from 500 to 700 AD.
Three coins dating back to the Roman Era, metal tools and broken pipes dating back to the Ottoman Era were unearthed at Tal-alashari site.
Head of al-Sanamen Antiquity Department Eyad al-Farwan said that archaeologists found a Roman tomb comprising a skeleton of a 20-year old man and a coin belonging to the same era next to him at the site of Selmine.
In the town of Jedia, an excavation mission found four tombs dating back to the Roman and Byzantine Eras that contain bracelets, coins and bronze shards. (ANI)
Other four tombs with basaltic ground and a stone gate were also found at the same site.
Surveys made by a French archaeological mission uncovered the northern part of the Nabataean Cathedral in Bosra while other surveys unearthed some parts of Trajan Palace’s private bath.
National expedition continued its work in Bosra uncovering bathhouses in an attempt to know its chronological development.
At the site of Kherbet-hamha, foundations of monks’ building, oil-presses and fluid reservoirs were found in addition to some shards of pottery which indicate that they belong to the era from 500 to 700 AD.
Three coins dating back to the Roman Era, metal tools and broken pipes dating back to the Ottoman Era were unearthed at Tal-alashari site.
Head of al-Sanamen Antiquity Department Eyad al-Farwan said that archaeologists found a Roman tomb comprising a skeleton of a 20-year old man and a coin belonging to the same era next to him at the site of Selmine.
In the town of Jedia, an excavation mission found four tombs dating back to the Roman and Byzantine Eras that contain bracelets, coins and bronze shards. (ANI)
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