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This city of 70,000 inhabitants, on the right bank of the Euphrates will be no more than a stopping place on a journey along the middle course of this river, or on the occasion of a trans-desertic trip through Palmyra, 206 km from there. It is also a crossroads and rail station to the Djezirah, but this Syrian Far-West, so to say, interests engineers, workers and pioneers exploiting this immense plain rather than tourists: all its archeological heritage, which is considerable, is hidden under artificial mounds so numerous that they end up as a natural part of the landscape, or go to museums (or private collections as this territory is an Eldorado for clandestine excavators). Deir-Ezzor has a museum concentrating on the prehistoric past of this area, but with exhibits of later periods. |
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