Entrance of the National Museum of Damascus التي كتبها Alessandra Kocman

The National Museum of Damascus (Arabic: المتحف الوطني بدمشق‎). <a href="http://travelinistanbul.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/travel-in-istanbul-fell-in-love-with-syria-part-1/" rel="nofollow">travelinistanbul.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/travel-in-istan...</a> It is a large museum in the heart of Damascus, Syria. The façade incorporates the transplanted gateway of Qasr al-Heir al-Gharbi, a desert castle near Palmyra. Inside, the west wing contains pre-classical and Arab Islamic collections, and the east wing contains Classical and Byzantine collections. The star exhibit of the National Museum is the fully-reassembled 2nd-century synagogue from Dura-Europos. Its walls are covered with Talmudic injunctions and bright figurative paintings of biblical scenes. (The celebrated church found at Dura-Europos is now in the museum of Yale University.)