My three weeks in Syria were magical. If you love history you’ll be in heaven seeing the spot on the Mediterranean from which Phoenician ships set sail, the birthplace of the alphabet, battlefields Egyptian chariots swept through, Queen Zenobia’s Palymyra, Diocletian’s camp, streets and gates St. Paul knew, the Omayyad Mosque, storybook crusader castles, Saladin’s Damascus and the markets of Aleppo, St.Simeon’s pillar…. this entire country is soaked in history.