The town of Ghariya in As-Suwayda… Multiple archaeological buildings document the history of the region

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Several ancient archaeological buildings documenting the history of the region and what it has witnessed through different eras.

According to the head of the Department of Archeology of the endosperm, Dr. Nashaat Kiwan was inhabited by the medieval and modern Bronze Age between 2000 and 1200 BC.

The most important archaeological buildings of the raid, according to Kiwan remnants of the Byzantine Church and the Nabataean temple, which is evidenced by many of the Nabataean writings discovered and many archaeological ruins such as Sbeih, Khraib and Nediba, as well as statues bearing the inscription in Greek and the altar of the square angles carved in Greek.

According to the excavations that started in 2008 in the town, according to Kewan, an archaeological cemetery located to the northeast of it, containing nine burials, was placed under the shape of the cemetery and the maximum area within it was used for burial.

According to Kiwan, the burials, which were named after being placed in the cemetery floor, were excavated, where the first and second burials, which were vandalized, found only a small part of the floor and the fourth burial center in the cemetery, where the remains of a spine may be almost complete and the bones of a hand still maintain. The bones of more than five skeletons, one of which belonged to a young child, and in the ninth cemetery, the remains of two semi-complete skeletons were found on the floor of the cemetery.

Kiwan points out that the excavation mission did not find any link between the existing bones in the seventh cemetery and left only one broken wooden board to parts, pointing to the bad situation of the fifth cemetery, which was vandalized and the bones were mixed with stones and the mission did not find any link between the bones Inside.

In the eighth cemetery, Kiwan mentions some of the scattered bones in the upper layers of it, which belong to more than one skeleton, because of the presence of almost five skulls and the remains of a semi-complete skeleton is the oldest buried mostly where it was documented by drawing, photography and conservation.

Also discovered in the cemetery a number of treasures and casts dating back to the Byzantine and Roman periods and included polymorphic beads, colors, sizes and some bronze ornaments of bracelets, earrings, spinners, spinners, saddle pottery, large pottery, wooden pots and some coins and a wooden comb and some wooden and metal nails.

Kiwan stresses the importance of continuing the excavation in the town of Ghariyah during the coming period in case there are possibilities to explore any new archaeological evidence and put it within the plan of tourist visits to the southern region of the province of As-Suwayda because it has a good archaeological and heritage stock and is close to the location of important archaeological surroundings such as Qarya and Dhibin Its proximity to the Jordanian border as one cultural and cultural extension.

Al-Ghariyah City Council Chairman Yasser Qasfah pointed out that the town requires more attention to its archaeological sites, providing a budget for the restoration of archaeological cemeteries discovered in it and working to classify it as a tourist town because of the elements it possesses.

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