National Museum of Syria

The Damascus Museum is the largest museum in Syria and was established in 1919. In 1936, according to the architectural form of the palace of the collapsed Umayyad Caliph Abdul Malik of the Arab Empire, the new museum was built using the materials of the old palace. The main collections in the museum are Greek cultural relics and cultural relics from the Eastern Roman era and the Islamic era. Most of the more precious cultural relics are from the Greek era. The best ones on display are a temple in 200 BC and an imperial mausoleum in 100 BC, which were built in their original form.