The Prehistoric Period
As the part that the man can see from a piece of ice over the water surface
forms a small part of it thus the age that followed the writing invention
(what we call The Historic Age ) forms a short period of the whole history
of Syria and the Syrians .
The dawn of history had risen in this country at the beginning of the third
millennium Before Christ following the writing invention in the adjacent
civilization cradles in southern Mesopotamia and Egypt and his spread from
these centers . The prehistoric period which we depend in our information
about her on the ancient monuments instead of the written documents, goes
back to tens thousands of years during the new stone age ( Neolithic ) and
the early stone age ( Paleolithic ) that preceded him .And the
archaeological excavations in the last century in the unknown deserts in
northern and eastern Syria informed us about the secrets of the forgotten
ancient civilizations and shows , without any doubt , that this reign which
archaeologists have ignored for a long time was more advanced in ancient
times than what we have thought. All of that made Syria a paradise for the
archaeologist
One of the them has said : " Under each hill in Syria there is an ancient
city ".
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