Syrians are once again picnicking and smoking shisha amid the ruins of ancient Palmyra, once desecrated by jihadists but ...

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 ...

Famed for well-preserved Greco-Roman ruins, Palmyra was seized from government ... priceless heritage as it had done in other parts of Syria and Iraq.

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.

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 ...