A few years later, while in Berlin, Ernst Herzfeld collaborated with M. Sobernheim by drafting architectural plans for the 1905 expedition to Baalbeck. At that time, He might have gained access to the ...

Palmyrene merchants grew wealthy through taxing and protecting caravans that made their way across the Syrian desert to the Euphrates River and down to the Persian Gulf, ...

In Palmyra, the Temple of Bel - the great sanctuary of the Palmyrene gods - was, until its destruction in August, one of the most important religious buildings of the 1st Century AD in the East.

Damascus, SANA – The edifies and funeral buildings of Palmyra have constituted valuable scientific material for archaeologists as they adopted a study and research that distinguished between ...

Damascus, SANA- The ancient Palmyrene celebration of the animal sacrifice as a means of getting closer to the gods is shown by the archaeological discoveries found in the valleys of the city of ...

Syria's antiquities chief said the Tower of Elahbel, built in AD103, was among those destroyed Jihadist militants from Islamic State (IS) have blown up three funerary towers at the ancient city of ...

Consisting of a series of catacombs, the necropolis developed from the 2 nd century AD as the primary Jewish burial place outside Jerusalem following the failure of the second Jewish revolt against ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Queen Zenobia, a famous military leader of the ancient world. Born in around 240 AD, Zenobia was Empress of the Palmyrene Empire in the Middle East.

In Palmyra, the Temple of Bel - the great sanctuary of the Palmyrene gods - was, until its destruction in August, one of the most important religious buildings of the 1st Century AD in the East.