Ancient City of Bosra, Syria

Janice Kortkamp
4 min readDec 16, 2019

by: Janice Kortkamp

date: November 24, 2019

Thankfully the majestic ruins of Bosra are undamaged (save for a small part of the citadel that is under repair now) and the area is back under control of the Syrian government once again since its liberation from “rebel” forces in July of 2018. For years during the war this extraordinary site was inaccessible to tourists, scholars, and…

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Janice Kortkamp

I’m a citizen researcher and independent researcher on Syria and the Middle East. I’ve spent many months traveling around Syria during the war on seven trips.