Mosaic Exhibition in Damascus Citadel North Gallery. A Cooperation between Syria and Italy for Conservation and Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Damascus 2008.

Mosaic Exhibition in Damascus Citadel North Gallery. A
Cooperation between Syria and Italy for Conservation and
Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Damascus Citadel
North Gallery, Implementation of exhibition for mosaic in
Damascus Citadel – North Gallery,
ID No. AID 006935/01/4/PMU Laboratories / TD02 are the
great result of scientific collaboration between
Directorate General of Antiquities and Museum of Syria,
Ministry of Turism of Syria and Cooperation Italy-Syria.
The Syrian national cultural heritage is one of the most
impressive in the world and its preservation represents
an important contribution to world culture and a priority
for the Syrian Government.
The Italian Government, in cooperation with the Syrian
Authorities, has offered its support to Syria in its efforts
to achieve the goal of promoting its cultural treasures.
The Italian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, through the Directorate General of Development,
has focused its activities in the cultural sector on the
restoration of the magnificent mosaics preserved in the
Citadel of Damascus.
The objective is to reopen it and create a cultural district
within its premises and to allow the people of Syria, and
the world, to fully appreciate this magnificent building, by
returning it to its inherent cultural and historical
meaning. The success is demonstrated by the results
achieved in the rehabilitation of a number of important
mosaic panels, which were stored in the warehouses of
the DGAM.
The rehabilitation activities have been carried out under
the supervision of RavennAntica Foundation and a team
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of Syrian restorers. The mosaic panels are coming from
Northern Syria,
partly from the Neeha site near Ma‘arrat al-Nouman,
partly from the al-Rayân site in Edlib, and were
discovered between 1950 and 1972. Mosaics belongs to
Byzantine period (the second half of the fifth century
A.D.).