The capital of the Aram-Damascus, sits on the border of the Syrian-Arabian desert, it is one of the oldest cities in the world, Damascus was a very important transition between Mesopotamia and the Levant. , which was ruled in the Late Bronze Age by the Egyptians, letters were found from Damascus itself and from Egyptian officials who lived in Damascus as well as from the inscriptions of Seti I, Ramses II and also from the letters of Al-Amarna. At the beginning of the Iron Age, when the Egyptians withdrew from the Levant, the kingdom would become Aram-Damascus. The kingdom of the Iron Age extended from south of Damascus to Horan, Golan and north of Damascus, on the border of the mountains opposite Lebanon, to Lachmat. At its height, in the second half of the 9th century BC, Aram-Damascus was a mini-empire in the Levant. Despite its power and wealth, the Aram-Damascus kingdom was eventually conquered by the Assyrian Empire in 732 BC. Nevertheless, Damascus continued to be An important center of culture and commerce, it remains one of the largest and most important cities in the Near East to this day.