Cemetries, public baths and archeological discoveries in Daraa Province
were discovered in 2009, all
of which were documented
in
order to trace the actual
era and the successive
civilizations of this area.
Head of Bosra's
Antiquities Department, Wafa
al-Audi said that an ancient
tomb was unearthed in a
house for a citizen in Daraa
dating back to Byzantine Era
where three copper
bracelets, an iron one in
addition to some shards.
Other four tombs with
basaltic ground and a stone
gate were also found at the
same site.
Surveys made by a French
archeological mission
uncovered the northern part
of the Nabataean Cathedral
in Bosra while other surveys
unearthed some parts of
Trajan Palace's private
bath.
National expedition
continued its work in Bosra
uncovering bathhouses in an
attempt to know its
chronological development.
At the site of
Kherbet-hamha, foundations
of monks' building,
oil-presses and fluid
reservoirs were found in
addition to some shards of
pottery which indicate that
they belong to the
era from
500 to 700 AD.
Three coins dating back
to the Roman Era, metal
tools and broken pipes
dating back to the Ottoman
Era were unearthed at
Tal-alashari site.
Head of al-Sanamen
Antiquity Department Eyad
al-Farwan said that
archeologists found a Roman
tomb comprising a skeleton
of a 20-year old man and a
coin (Fils) belonging to the
same era next to him at the
site of Selmine.
In the town of
Jedia, an
excavation mission found
four tombs dating back to
the Roman and Byzantine Eras
which contain bracelets,
coins and bronze shards.
SANA