Collection: National Museum of Syria, Der-ez-Zor, Syria History

The museum of Deir ez-Zor was founded in 1974 and then rebuilt and re-inaugruated in 1996 to meet the needs of preservation and exhibition of ever-growing collections. The main goal of the museum is to promote the study, education and tourism of the Syrian Jezirah and its history.

The museum’s collections, currently composed of some 25,000 objects, cover the long history of the region, ranging from Stone Age sites such as Bouqras, through the Chalcolithic Uruk culture settlements of Tell Bderi and the Bronze Age Syrian polities of Mari and Ebla, finishing with the periods of Akkadian, Roman and Islamic domination.

In this museum are notably kept, for the bulk, the thousands of cuneiform tablets found at Mari since 1933.

Information

Link	http://dgam.gov.sy/المتاحف-الوطنية/#1604583731745-93d942af-e1d4
Related artifacts	9836 artifacts

Names

Name	Language
Deir Ezzor National Museum	English
المتحف الوطني دير الزور	Arabic

Linked data

Resource	Link
Wikidata	Q1954780
GeoNames	7639062
English Wikipedia	Deir_ez-Zor_Museum
Arabic Wikipedia	متحف_دير_الزور

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Owner	Directorate-General for Antiquities and Museums, Syrian Arab Republic
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Location

Coordinates: 40.1331, 35.3409

Administrative regions

Country	Syria SYR
Region	Dayr Az Zawr SYR.7_1
District	Deir ez-Zor SYR.7.2_1

Cite this Collection

CDLI contributors. 2026. “National Museum of Syria, Der-Ez-Zor, Syria - Collections.” Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. January 8, 2026. https://cdli.earth/collections/685.

CDLI contributors. (2026, January 8). National Museum of Syria, Der-ez-Zor, Syria - Collections. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. https://cdli.earth/collections/685

CDLI contributors (2026) National Museum of Syria, Der-ez-Zor, Syria - Collections, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Available at: https://cdli.earth/collections/685 (Accessed: January 8, 2026).

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Cite this Collection

CDLI contributors. 2026. “National Museum of Syria, Der-Ez-Zor, Syria - Collections.” Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. January 8, 2026. https://cdli.earth/collections/685.

CDLI contributors. (2026, January 8). National Museum of Syria, Der-ez-Zor, Syria - Collections. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. https://cdli.earth/collections/685

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