Daraa Museum Garden  tells the story of successive civilizations

Damascus (ST): As soon as the visitor enters the Daraa National Museum, his eyes fall on ancient artifacts spread throughout its garden but tell the story of successive civilizations that passed through the Hauran region and left a historical legacy that embodies all the details of life thousands of years ago.

Most of the contents of the park date back to the Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods, while the local community in Daraa had an important role in providing dozens of gifts to the Department of Antiquities of high archaeological value, in addition to confiscating dozens of artifacts that were preparing to be smuggled outside the governorate.

In a statement to news reporter,  the curator of Daraa Museum, Wael Kiwan, said that the park includes parts of columns, bases, capitals, tombstones and grinders for grinding grains of different shapes and sizes, grape presses and ranches, or what is known as stone burials of various sizes with drawings and inscriptions, a pagan altar and parts of statues of civilizations that passed through the plain of Hauran.

Kiwan pointed out that the garden includes what is known as the Sahar platform, which is a miniature of the civilization that passed through the Kingdom of Sahar in the Lajat area in Daraa countryside.

He explained that most of the inscriptions that adorn these pieces are either plant or geometric, as well as carving animals and human faces on the ranches that were used to bury influential people of interest or influence, as the inscriptions symbolize the person’s status in his people.