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03Jan 2011In 2011 two campaigns of excavations were conducted on the site of Cyrrhus: the first one in June and the Second in October
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10Feb 2012INSTITUT DE FRANCE The Archaeological Excavations at Cyrrhus (Aleppo-Syria) will be presented by Jeanine Abdul Massih at the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres the 10 of February 2012 at 15.30
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28Jun 2011The results of the ANR-PROGECESA program on geophysics is presented with four interventions on the results on Cyrrhus
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08Dec 2011A presentation of the PhD doctorate on the Fortifications of Cyrrhus is presented at the french ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris the 8 of December 2011 at 15PM
Located 70km north of Aleppo on the Syrian-Turkish border, the site of Cyrrhus, of approximately 65 hectares, was founded in the Hellenistic Period (3rd century BC) and it named the Cyrrhestic province. Later, it was occupied by the Romans, the Byzantines, and the Arabs until it disappeared at the end of the XII century AD.
Since 2006, the Lebanese and Syrian archaeological team, directed by Jeanine Abdul Massih (Lebanese University) and Shaker Shbib (Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums of Syria), carried out new excavations and researches, in order to understand the successive constructions and occupations in the city and the nearby territory. Therefore, an important program was implemented and developed on the urbanism the fortification, and the monuments of the site previously excavated.
