Palmyra in pictures

PALMYRA WATCH: Take a virtual tour of the Roman ruins of Palmyra in Syria - in pictures. Syria has six sites listed on the Unesco elite list of world heritage and all of them sustained some level of damage in the 10-year war (AFP/The National). HT Rogue Classicism.

For many posts on Palmyra, its history, the ancient Aramaic dialect spoken there (Palmyrene), and the city's tragic reversals of fortune, now trending for the better, start here and follow the links.

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