The Directorate-General for Antiquities and Museums (DGAM); Arabic: المديرية العامة للآثار والمتاحف, French: Direction générale des antiquités et des musées) is a Syrian government-owned agency that is responsible for the protection, promotion and excavation activities in all sites of national heritage in the country.

The Directorate was established shortly after Syria's independence in 1946 under the central supervision of the Ministry of Culture.

With the development of archaeological work and the increase in discoveries, its tasks expanded and its scientific and administrative responsibilities multiplied to include all cities and regions in the Syrian Arab Republic.

Internationally: Through archaeological exhibitions and various international participations through archaeological conferences and forums, and according to the scientific activity of the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums[1] for more than half a century, it was able to introduce the world to the chapters of the ancient Syrian civilization and added to the history curricula in the world's universities and research centers ancient Syrian sciences, so it became These universities teach the flourishing prehistoric civilizations in Syria.

Thus, Syria became the focus of the attention of historians, archaeologists, and linguists, due to the data presented by the Syrian land that discredited many people's beliefs about the history of human civilizations in all historical eras known to mankind, because the Syrian land has embraced very important evidence for each era.