• Ancient City of Damascus

  Ancient City of Damascus

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  <img src=’http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/sites/site_20.jpg’ target=’blank’ align=’left’ style=’padding:5px’>Founded in the 3rd millennium B.C., Damascus is one of the oldest cities in the Middle East. In the Middle Ages, it was the centre of a flourishing craft industry, specializing in swords and lace. The city has some 125 monuments from different periods of its history &ndash; one of the most spectacular is the 8th-century Great Mosque of the Umayyads, built on the site of an Assyrian sanctuary.

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