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View of Palmyra with the Temple of Bel, Syria. Palmyra (Aramaic: ܬܕܡܘܪܬܐ‎;Hebrew: תדמור; tiḏmor, Greek: Παλμύρα, Arabic: تدمر‎; Tadmur, /ˌpælˈmaɪərə/) was an ancient city in central Syria. In antiquity, it was an important city located...

Photo of Palmyra's 13th century CE Mamluk castle with ancient ruins in the foreground.

A sandstone grave stelw from Palmyra, Syria. Known as the grave stele of Abkha, daughter of Akhou. 2nd century CE. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)

Colonnade with canal in the foreground, temple of Ba'al (1st-2nd century CE), Palmyra, Syria.

Zenobia (b. c. 240 CE, death date unknown) was the queen of the Palmyrene Empire who challenged the authority of Rome during the latter part of the period of Roman history known as The Crisis of the Third Century (235-284 CE also known as...

Limestone funerary bust of a woman from Palmyra (Central Syria) with traces of polychromy so called ”The Beauty of Palmyra”, 190-210 CE. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

Queen Zenobia's Last Look Upon Palmyra, painting by Herbert Gustave Schmalz, 1888. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

The hypogea or underground tombs, along with the tower tombs and house tombs, constitute an important part of the monumental burials of the wealthy Palmyrene class in the first and second centuries CE. The underground galleries were, most...

An illustration of the Roman emperor Hadrian (r. 117-138 CE) arriving in Palmyra, by Marek Szyszko. (Courtesy of Ancient History Magazine / Karwansaray Publishers)

A panoramic view of ruins of the ancient desert city of Palmyra in Syria, which grew large in the Syrian desert in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. The ruins are now a United Nations World Heritage site.