In Syria's western desert, Maree Al Shehab had given up hope of seeing his home city of Palmyra again, still less showing his ...

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 ...

The ancient Syrian city of Palmyra was an important hub along ancient trade routes, particularly the Great Silk Road, in Western Asia. Its heyday encompassed the 1st-3rd centuries AD, when a ...

Images of ruined 2,000-year-old temples and towers in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra shocked the world when they surfaced in 2015. Blown up by the Islamic State that then occupied part of Syria ...

Many of Syria's archaeological treasures have ... civilisations including the Umayyad mosque in Damascus and the ancient city of Palmyra. But much has been destroyed or looted in the civil war.

OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP Images of ruined 2,000-year-old temples and towers in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra shocked the world when they surfaced in 2015. Palmyra artefacts were blown up by the ...

Wealth, culture, and power dwelled in the city of Palmyra in the ... Located in the middle of modern-day Syria, around 130 miles northeast of Damascus, Palmyra had prospered since coming under ...

An oasis in the Syrian desert, north-east of Damascus, Palmyra contains the monumental ruins of a great city that was one of the most important cultural centres of the ancient world. From the 1st to ...

On the rooftop terrace of a restaurant overlooking the Bosphorus in the Turkish city of Istanbul ... a user in northern Syria claims is from the ancient site of Palmyra, looted and damaged ...

The 2,000-year-old Temple of Bel in Palmyra ... ancient city of Aleppo Credit: Getty Not wholly unsurprisingly, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has not altered its stance ...

Ancient City Defied Rome, Now Faces Threat of Islamic ... World's Top Terrorists Read Archaeologists Train "Monuments Men" to Save Syria's Past Archaeologists Train "Monuments Men" to Save ...