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Site WatchSite Name: Palmyra
Country: Syria
NOTE: This site is 55.083 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Palmyra
Latitude: 34.559167N  Longitude: 38.273611E
Condition:
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Palmyra
Palmyra submitted by Klingon : A picture of the "Decumanus Maximus" for a Peep show, circa 1830. By courtesy of the Optical Museum Jena. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Palmyra was an important city of central Syria in ancient times. The vast necropolises there contain three kinds of tombs: high towers used for multiple burials, underground burial complexes (hypogea), and temple tombs.

The tombs usually contain large burial chambers with long grave recesses in their walls to accommodate the bodies. These shafts were usually closed with decorated stone slabs.

Note: News agency pictures reveal the extent of destruction wrought during the 10-month occupation of the Unesco World Heritage site. See the most recent comments on our page for more, and we have more archive images of the site.
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Palmyra Valley of the Tombs
Palmyra Valley of the Tombs submitted by AlexHunger : Tomb of Elabel, a familly tower crypt dating to 103 CE. It had room for 260 people. Outside of Palmyra, a desert trading town. Perhaps the Las Vegas of its day. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Palmyra
Palmyra submitted by 43559959 : Millennium visit to Palmyra. Better view from a breakfast room in a hotel is hard to beat. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Palmyra Valley of the Tombs
Palmyra Valley of the Tombs submitted by AlexHunger : Tomb of the 3 Brothers, commercial funeral operators. It had room for 450 customers who couldn't afford their own monument, besides themselves. This underground tomb dates to about 135 CE. Tombs in Palmyra, a desert Oasis Trading town. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Palmyra
Palmyra submitted by 43559959 : Millennium visit to Palmyra. A good place to be wandering about for a long time. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Palmyra
Palmyra submitted by Jansold : General view (Vote or comment on this photo)

Palmyra
Palmyra submitted by Jansold : The Theatre. Extensively restored.

Palmyra Temple of Baal
Palmyra Temple of Baal submitted by durhamnature : Old photo from "Bismya..." via archive.org Site in Syria

Palmyra Valley of the Tombs
Palmyra Valley of the Tombs submitted by AlexHunger : Tombs in Palmyra, a desert Oasis Trading town. This tomb from 59 BCE is the oldest tower tomb just outside of Palmyra.

Palmyra Valley of the Tombs
Palmyra Valley of the Tombs submitted by AlexHunger : Tomb of the 3 Brothers, commercial funeral operators. It had room for 450 customers who couldn't afford their own monument, besides themselves. This underground tomb dates to about 135 CE. This part of the tomb had Cenotaphs. More are in the Palmyra Museum. Tombs in Palmyra, a desert Oasis Trading town.

Palmyra Valley of the Tombs
Palmyra Valley of the Tombs submitted by AlexHunger : Plaques of the Tomb of Elabel, a Familly crypt in tower form. Tombs in Palmyra, a desert Oasis Trading town. This tower tomb dates to 103 CE. There was room for 260 Familly members and servants.

Palmyra Temple of Fire
Palmyra Temple of Fire submitted by AlexHunger : Temple in Palmyra, a desert oasis trading town in the Syrian desert.

Palmyra Temple of Baal Shameen
Palmyra Temple of Baal Shameen submitted by AlexHunger : Temple in Palmyra for the semitic God of luck and rain. (1 comment)

Palmyra
Palmyra submitted by 43559959 : Millennium visit to Palmyra. View from the terrace of the Zenobia Hotel, Christmas eve. Waiting for the next millennium. (1 comment)

Palmyra
Palmyra submitted by 43559959 : Millennium visit to Palmyra. Just a spectacular site.

Palmyra
Palmyra submitted by Jansold : General view.

Palmyra
Palmyra submitted by Jansold : The Tetrapylon. Reconstructed in 1963.

Palmyra
Palmyra submitted by Jansold : The theatre. Extensively restored. Site in Syria

Palmyra
Palmyra submitted by Jansold : The Tetrapylon. Reconstructed in 1963 Site in Syria

Palmyra Temple of Baal
Palmyra Temple of Baal submitted by AlexHunger : Compound collonade. Helenistic Temple of the semitic God Baal in Palmyra. Unfortunately it lost most of the columns except on the East side, seen here. There is a good part of the compound wall colonade.

Palmyra Temple of Baal
Palmyra Temple of Baal submitted by AlexHunger : Altars inside of Cela. Helenistic Temple of the semitic God Baal in Palmyra. Unfortunately it lost most of the columns except on the East side, seen here. There is a good part of the compound wall colonade.

Palmyra Temple of Baal
Palmyra Temple of Baal submitted by AlexHunger : Helenistic Temple of the semitic God Baal in Palmyra. Unfortunately it lost most of the columns except on the East side, seen here. There is a good part of the compound wall colonade.

Palmyra Valley of the Tombs
Palmyra Valley of the Tombs submitted by AlexHunger : Tombs in Palmyra, a desert Oasis Trading town.

Palmyra Valley of the Tombs
Palmyra Valley of the Tombs submitted by AlexHunger : Tomb of the 3 Brothers, commercial funeral operators. It had room for 450 customers who couldn't afford their own monument, besides themselves. This part of the tomb had decorative fresques. This underground tomb dates to 135 CE. Tombs in Palmyra, a desert Oasis Trading town.

Palmyra Valley of the Tombs
Palmyra Valley of the Tombs submitted by AlexHunger : Tombs in Palmyra, a desert Oasis Trading town. The visible ones are tower shaped, he rest are underground.

Palmyra Valley of the Tombs
Palmyra Valley of the Tombs submitted by AlexHunger : Tombs in Palmyra, a desert Oasis Trading town. Cenotaph found in one of the tombs, now in the Palymra Museum. These 2 brothers were dresed in Roman togas to show their cultural orientation. (1 comment)

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Syria civil war: Palmyra damage in pictures by Andy B on Tuesday, 29 March 2016
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The pictures reveal the extent of destruction wrought by the group during their 10-month occupation of the Unesco World Heritage site.

While some treasured monuments have been destroyed, much of the ancient city's ruins are said to remain intact.

Syria's antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim said authorities had been "expecting the worst". But he told the AFP news agency that "the landscape, in general, is in good shape".

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35909456

With thanks to Roy Batham for the link
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Palmyra arch that survived Isis to be replicated in London and New York by Andy B on Monday, 28 December 2015
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Copies of 15-metre Temple of Bel entrance in Syria to be built in Trafalgar Square and Times Square in ‘gesture of defiance’

Replicas of an ancient monument in Palmyra that has apparently survived attempts by Islamic State to demolish it are to be erected in London and New York.

The 15-metre structure is one of the few remaining parts of the 2,000-year-old Temple of Bel in the Syrian city. Isis fighters all but razed the temple as they systematically destroyed Palmyra over the past year.

The construction of the replicas will be the centrepiece of events for world heritage week, planned for April with a theme of replication and reconstruction. It has also been characterised as a gesture of defiance against religious extremists’ attempts to erase evidence of the Middle East’s pre-Islamic history.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/28/palmyra-temple-bel-arch-survived-isis-syria-london-new-york
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Re: Palmyra by XIII on Monday, 05 October 2015
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Isis blows up Arch of Triumph in 2,000-year-old city of Palmyra

Islamic State militants have destroyed the Arch of Triumph in the ancient city of Palmyra, a monument that dates back to the Roman empire, Syria’s chief of antiquities told the Guardian.

Read more: The Guardian
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Islamic State destroys ancient tombs in Palmyra by davidmorgan on Friday, 04 September 2015
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Islamic State has destroyed three tower tombs in Palmyra that date back to the first and second centuries, Syria’s antiquities director has said, in what appears to be the latest act in a systematic effort to obliterate the ruins of the ancient city.

On Friday, Maamoun Abdulkarim said the tombs in Palmyra, which was among the best preserved sites from antiquity, were blown up 10 days ago. The Jamblique, Elhbel and Kithot tombs were built in AD83, AD103 and AD44 respectively.

Read more at The Guardian.
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Syrian Civil War and 2015 Islamic State Offensive and Capture by bat400 on Monday, 24 August 2015
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In 2013 clashes between rebels and the Syria government brought about disruption, terror and loss of life in the modern town of Tadmur, adjacent to the ancient city of Palmyra. Damage to the archaeological site at that time included mortar damage to the Temple of Ba'al.

In May 2015 the Islamic State began a major offensive into the area, pushing out government forces and resulting in their effective control of 50% of Syria. The IS followed their takeover with executions of government representatives, soldiers, and civilians, possibly as many as 400. Some of the executions have been carried out in the ruins of the Roman theater.

Additionally the IS has continued their policy of destroying antiquities that cannot be immediately sold on the black market. They started with the June 2015 destruction of two early Islamic tombs: of Mohammad Bin Ali, a Shiite saint, and a site marking the grave of Nizar Abu Bahaa Eddine, a Sufi scholar. IS has destroyed more that 50 Islamic tombs as they view veneration to be tantamount to idolotry.

Most recently IS is reported to have reduced the
Temple of Baal Shameen to rubble.

For more, see these links:

2013 Clashes: reuters.com/article/2013/04/03/us-syria-crisis-palmyra

2015 June: nytimes.com/2015/06/25/world/middleeast/islamic-state-isis-destroys-palmyra-tombs

2015 August: aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/isil-destroys-ancient-temple
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IS beheads leading Syrian antiquities scholar in Palmyra by bat400 on Wednesday, 19 August 2015
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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Islamic State militants beheaded a leading Syrian antiquities scholar who spent most of his life looking after the ancient ruins of Palmyra, then hung his body from a pole in a main square of the historic town, Syrian activists and the scholar's relatives said Wednesday.

Since IS overran Palmyra in May, there have been fears the extremists, who have destroyed famed archaeological sites in Iraq, would demolish the 2,000-year-old Roman-era city at the edge of the town — a UNESCO world heritage site and one of the Mideast's most spectacular archaeological sites.

A Palmyra-based Syrian opposition activist who uses the name Khaled al-Homsi and who identified himself also as a nephew of al-Asaad, said Islamic State militants detained the scholar around three weeks ago. On Tuesday, they brought him in a van to a square packed with shoppers.
A militant then read out five alleged IS charges against al-Asaad, including that he was the "director of idols," represented Syria "at infidel conferences" and visited Shiite powerhouse Iran.

For more, if you can stand to read it, see Yahoo News.
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Re: Palmyra by DrewParsons on Monday, 17 May 2010
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The Syrian Archaeological Expedition working at the site of Palmyra's northern defensive wall (Central Syria) has unearthed tower tombs close to the wall. Head of Palmyra Antiquities Department Walid Asa'ad said Wednesday the square-shaped burial has a two-slab decorated stone gate. The doorway leads to the roof of the burial place through stairs.

The burial site includes a yard with several chambers; each contains six multi-storey tower tombs, he added. Asa'ad indicated that the site was a typical Palmyra ancient burial place, adding that the tower tomb was re-used as a defensive tower in the 6th century. Fragments of sculptures were unearthed at the site in addition to other archaeological monuments such as shelves, arches and pillars.

Palmyra's burials are unique. Situated outside the city walls, they show the changes in burial practice over the city's history and reflect Palmyran beliefs in the afterlife. The vast necropolises of Palmyra contain three kinds of tombs: high towers used for multiple burials, underground burial complexes (hypogea), and temple tombs. The tombs usually contain large burial chambers with long grave recesses in their walls to accommodate the bodies. These shafts were usually closed with decorated stone slabs. Sarcophagi were rare in Palmyra. Archaeologists have found cooking equipment and food containers, which indicate that feasting, took place in the tombs. The presence of altars and incense burners also suggest that offerings were made

Palmyra, situated in central Syria, was one of the largest centres during the Roman Empire and an important stop on the caravan route to Persia. The ancient Palmyrian sculpture style is famous, and includes elaborately-executed funerary relieves.

http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201004185537/Travel/syrian-archaeologists-tombs-tower-unearthed-in-palmyra.html

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