Bloodthirsty butchers of Islamic State are again stalking Syria’s most precious site
Bathed in the glow of the winter sun, the colonnades of ancient Palmyra are perhaps Syria’s most precious sight.
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Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra: Concern over security of historic and strategic sites
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Bloodthirsty butchers of Islamic State are again stalking Syria’s most precious 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 ...
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Bloodthirsty butchers of Islamic State are again stalking Syria’s most precious site
With Assad and his Russian backers gone, people of Palmyra fear the return of terrorists who forced them to watch beheadings Bathed in the glow of the winter sun, the colonnades of ancient Palmyra ...
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Syria: This temple in Syria, built 2000 years ago, was destroyed by extremists nine years ago; know about Temple of Baalshamin
Among them was the Temple of Baalshamin in ancient Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to media reports, in May 2015(nine years before), the city of Palmyra fell under the control of ...
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Can Syria's devastated cultural heritage be rebuilt?
Image: 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 ...
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Russians’ concert in Palmyra trumpets victories over terror
RENOWNED Russian conductor Valery Gergiev led St Petersburg’s Mariinsky orchestra as it gave a symbolic concert in the amphitheatre of ancient Palmyra yesterday. The With a Prayer for Palmyra concert, ...