It has always been a dream to return here,” said Abu Hamza, one of the few visitors to Palmyra since last month’s downfall of ...

Khaldoun Al Raba, 32, has fond memories of his days guiding tourists around the ancient ruins of Palmyra, deep in the Syrian ...

The Syrian Directorate-General for Antiquities ... According to legend, it was founded by the biblical King Solomon. The ruins of Palmyra are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

French, Danish, and Syrian archaeologists, in the interwar period ... the scale and skill employed in constructing ancient Palmyra gave its ruins the ability to withstand the turmoil of multiple ...

SYRIAN troops swept the newly liberated city of Palmyra for Islamic State (Isis) boobytraps yesterday as the extent of harm to its ancient treasures became apparent. Russian head of general staff ...

comte de Volney (1757–1820), a contemporary of Cassas who also traveled to Syria in the 1780s. Volney's seminal political treatise, The Ruins, or Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires (1791), sets ...

Bathed in the glow of the winter sun, the colonnades of ancient Palmyra are perhaps Syria’s most precious sight. Yet the days when awestruck tourists would clamber through the ruins of Queen Zenobia’s ...

Replicas of an arch in the 2,000-year-old Temple of Bel, among the last remaining parts of an ancient Palmyra, Syria, structure demolished by the Islamic State [Daesh], will be erected in London ...

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Wood had visited the Greek islands, Syria and Egypt in 1742-3 ... He returned to Britain in 1751, and published, first The Ruins Of Palmyra (1753), and then The Ruins Of Balbec (1757). The Ruins of ...

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (AFP) - The Syrian defence ministry said 36 people were killed and more than 50 wounded Wednesday in Israeli air strikes on the oasis city of Palmyra, renowned for its ancient ruins.

ISLAMIC STATE (Isis) militants captured the central Syrian city of Tadmur yesterday, overrunning the ancient ruins of Palmyra to the south. Syrian troops were forced to withdraw from the city in the ...