Calendar:
12-13 February 2010
Secular State and the Question of Religion
28th October 2009 at 7 pm
Why! UNRWA and Palestine Refugees After Sixty Years
18th October 2009 at 8 pm
Pierre Dørge and the New Jungle Orchestra
NOTICE
Scholarships 2010
ANNOUNCEMENT
Islam graduate research school, Damascus 3-14 May 2010
Dura-Europos: A Pompeii in the Syrian Desert
by Ulf Haxen
A small garrison town, with the Semitic and Greek sounding name Dura-Europos, was by coincidence rediscovered by British mercenaries after World War I. Despite the inaccessibility of the place, archaeologists were able to excavate a minor city with a ruler-straight network of roads and square housing blocks.
Qala'at Halwanji
by Jesper Eidem
A scholarship from the Danish Institute in Damascus was an important support for the Syrian-Danish archaeological studies carried through on Qala'at Halwanji in Northern Syria in 2008.