Date: Jan 17, 2010 - 11:55
. . . which you can read about by clicking here. There's also an video presentation you can click on that covers the author's visit to Syria more broadly, and it concludes with a bit of the dying language of Jesus, Aramaic.
To see even more of Syria's Dead Cities (2,055 photos, no less), you can click here and go to a group site on Flickr where members post their photos from the Dead Cities -- the "Ville Mortes" of Syria's onetime French occupiers.