Maps - Syria

From About.com's Geography Guide. Maps and geographical data about modern Syria.

Map showing the regions surrounding the Assyrian Empire.

Successive World Kingdoms: Persia, Babylon, Assyria, 640-500 BC. Eventually spanning from Libya and Macedonia in the West to the end of the Persian Gulf in the East, maps show the outlines of each empire.

Oriental Institute's site maps locating primary archaeological sites, modern cities, and river courses in Syria.

Located about 50 mi. south of modern Amman, Petrra was established in the 6th C BC by nomads and as a commercial empire extended into Syria.

Map shows cities of Syria.

From Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius site, a 19th C map of Syria with Latin place names.