By the way, elevation are given as approximate because we have found that the Garmin emap handheld GPS fairly accurate (up to 10 ft.) for longitude and latitude, but a little less reliable for elevation.
This website and is a resource of digital images, scanned slides, GPS coordinates, and chronological information from our research in the Middle East.
Professor
David Hanlon (SLCC) has given permission to use a few of his fine art
photographs taken at several sites in Syria. His beautiful prints are
for sale! Be sure and visit his webpage at
http://users.stlcc.edu/dhanlon/index.htm
IMPORTANT...
web visitors are welcome to link to our site, but we do not want images
or information copied without our expressed permission. Eventually
we will add short essays about each site. The perspective of this website
is of two anthropological archaeologists with two decades of fieldwork
at Medieval sites in Syria and Jordan. A
special note of thanks to many castle guards for permission to visit.
Many thanks to the various professional archaeologists in the Directorate
Generale des Antiquites et Musees in Damascus. The "carte blanc"
provided by the National Museum made our work much easier. Literally,
a thousand thanks to our good friend Sagi Qorqmax of Latakia (Syria) for
his help in relocating castles in western Syria. His knowledge and skills
(historian, journalist, and guide) are invaluable. Active
construction of the website will be ongoing. Please return
as more castles as added each year... Offers an extensive database of links to all things Castle
related Neathery
and Michael Fuller, Archaeologists and Web Designs Here
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Krak des Chevaliers und die Kreuzfahrer. Private Printing, Damascus.
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