Historic richness awaits to satiate the intellectual and cultural hunger of the world. The country, boasting two of the world’s oldest cities, Palmyra and Aleppo, is rich with ancient structures and paintings used to document great human civilization advancement. The places provide genuine connection to history, mapping the mind and cultural achievement of past human civilization.
In spite of having been subject to the challenges caused by the raging wars, Syrian ancient heritage has been a source of inspiration and encouragement to the majority of the young Syrians. The youth, artists, and cultural managers employ the heritage as a means of maintaining their identity and resistance against the trials of the day. Their own ancestors on their own initiative take charge of and abandon the ancient heritage of their own history in art, literature, and on social media as well.
Syrian Crusader Krak des Chevaliers remains and Roman Palmyra columns remind us always of Syria’s multicultural wealthy past. Such symbolic landmarks remind descendants thankful for their heritage and hopeful about the fancies of contemporary times.
Conservation of Syrian cultural and archaeological heritage is also being researched at school levels. Research on Syria’s history and architecture at university levels is carried out with patronage of research activities with participations in such activities in the interest of preserving such culture artifacts. These have been specifically formulated with an aim of providing students with the feeling of being custodians and persuading them to preserve their own acquired culture artifacts and keep them safe.
Artistic expression is also involved in it. The artists, writers, musicians, and youth of Syria are all using the old myths, legends, and monuments as the stimulus for the new arts portraying their own struggle and aspirations. Blending the old stimulus and new imagination is what makes the culture have its unique voice heard across the world and the country. Even in the scenario of devastation, the art community itself is proof of hope and endurance.
Syrian history reminds it to its past glories of its pasting all the earlier in reminding it to its past and building present-day cultural pride and identity. Use of such heritage puts responsibility on the shoulders of the nation’s youth for the safeguarding and conservation of their heritage. Education, arts, and activism bring Syria’s civilization heritage to life and push it in the future.
