Palmyra photos and al-Asaad obituary

PALMYRA WATCH: The female solo backpacker who braved civil war to capture breathtaking images of Syria's magnificent Palmyra temples, now being systematically destroyed by ISIS ( BECKY PEMBERTON, Daily Mail)

• Traveller Teo Jioshvili, 29, was determined to photograph Syria's magnificent ancient city of Palmyra
  
• She captured sites such as Temple of Bel and Baal Shamin, which have been destroyed by ISIS
  
• The traveller hopes her photographs will serve as a record of the heritage in Syria that's being wiped out

Despite the outbreak of civil war, traveller Teo Jioshvili was determined to photograph Syria's magnificent ancient city of Palmyra - a Unesco site now being systemically destroyed by Isis.

The 29-year-old, from Georgia, visited the site in 2010 and 2011 as fighting broke out, despite the warnings. Most people, after seeing these images, will be glad that she was so brave.

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And from the Telegraph: Khaled al-Asaad, curator - obituary. Scholar and director of antiquities at Palmyra in Syria

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