The Ḥarrat al-Shām, also known as the Harrat al-Harra or Harrat al-Shaba, and sometimes the Black Desert in English, is a region of rocky, basaltic desert straddling southern Syrian region and the nor
The Syrian desert, also known as the North Arabian desert, the Jordanian steppe, the Syrian steppe, or the Badiya, or Badiyat al-Sham, is a region of desert, semi-desert, and steppe, covering about 50
Harrat al-Sham
…Shubayqa 1, Natufian hunter-gatherer site with the oldest bread-making find in the world Syrian Desert Hauran, a historical region partially overlapping with the Harrat al-Sham…
Palmyra was an important trading center located in the Syrian desert
View of the Syrian Desert
Desert around Palmyra
Resafa ruins southwest of Raqqa and the Euphrates.