Syria dates back to the first human civilizations at the beginning of the Bronze Age and is home to the oldest civilizations in the east, Syria was the beginning of agriculture and the domestication of animals [citation needed] The first gatherings of civilization of ancient man, and was the basis of human activity where the many civilizations since the Stone Age and even Civilizations that came to Syria for thousands of years, until modern times.
The home of civilization
Syria is home to civilization just as it was said: "Everyone has two homes his home where he lived and Syria."
"When we are in Syria, we find ourselves with the same date Nmetzj gate is history as they are called by some historians and researchers [citation needed], each grain of soil is a character in the book of humanity shining immortal"
This is what the president of the American archaeological mission working in the detection of the Kingdom were in an area near the confluence of the Euphrates River in the area of the island Khabour Lafratip [citation needed], and rich history, which witnessed Syria through its long history has made it home to many civilizations and cultures, was the heir responsible for this deep history.
Syria has the oldest and most important civilizations in human history, such as the Kingdom were the old, which flourished in the second millennium BC, near the confluence of the Euphrates and the Khabour and was one of the first civilizations and discovered agriculture here in Syria for more than ten thousand years, also discovered and invented a mixture of copper bronze in Tel Treaty on the banks of the River Khabour since the third millennium BC. m. In the Kingdom of Mari (Tel Hariri) on the Euphrates River was the discovery of defects and evidence of the fees to cultural prosperity and trade in the Middle Euphrates and the East and West in the Kingdom of Ugarit (Ras Shamra), near the port of Latakia on the Mediterranean's oldest civilizations and has excelled and developed the alphabet and write the alphabet, one of the oldest alphabets in the world in Ugarit, and in the Kingdom of Iibat (Tel Mardikh) was discovered in the royal palace library and documentaries large number of thousands of manuscripts and governing administration and trade and diplomacy, industry, war and peace relations with other civilizations in its age and this library is one of the largest libraries in the history of [ citation needed].
Civilizations and kingdoms of Syria
Many of the civilizations and kingdoms in Syria, and the peoples of the girl is the oldest civilizations such as the Amorites Amorites, or (third millennium BC), Phoenician Canaanites (the inhabitants of the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea) and Balaramyin (the inhabitants of the upper and the south) and fonts inside Syria (some of the inhabitants of the south), the in northern Syria, the kingdoms of the Hittites.
Has on Syrian soil, many other civilizations such as Greek and Roman civilization, where the effects of Romanian cities spread widely in different regions of Syria and is considered one of the most ancient cities in the Romanian world, and was passing through their territory of the Silk Road from China and was the first leg of the Syrian role Oropos (fitness ) and then destroy the famous Vbesry, Homs and Aleppo, to be up to the ports of the Mediterranean coast and launched from the Syrian ports.
Ancient civilizations
The archaeologists in Syria, and to one of the oldest civilizations on Earth [citation needed]. Here was the beginning of human settlement planning and the first cities and the discovery of agriculture and the domestication of animals and the knowledge and the evolution of the alphabet found here (the first sickle and the plow I) are the first cities in history, such as the ancient Kingdom of Ebla in northern Syria has built an empire stretching from the Red Sea in the south to Turkey in the north and east to the Euphrates continuously from 2500 to 2400 BC. Includes Syria, in addition to so many civilizations, cities and kingdoms, such as Mari and Ugarit, and Ramita, and righteous, and Dura-Europos, and Sergilla, and Qirqbize, and tractor and Qatura, and set the circuit, and the sun, Basufan, Horry and the Prophet, and Arwad, and cotton, and meteors / Filipols, the channels , and Salkhad, and Apamea, and Hamou Carr, and the return, and the lighthouse, and Total, the Monastery of Sonbol, Weimar, and Aldana, Sarmada and dozens of other cities.
The large civilizations that have crossed over the Syrian territory and the great wealth of historical sites belonging to all ages and cultures makes Syria makes the entrance of the gate to history, it has had on Syrian soil, inhabited by many civilizations and peoples of various order can be enumerated: Sumerian, Akkadian, Chaldeans, Canaanites, Hebrews, Arameans, Hittites, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Allenbtion, Byzantines, Arabs, and partly Crusaders, and finally was under the control of the Ottoman Turks as they have been subject to the French Mandate between 1921 and 1946.