<< Our Photo Pages >> Palmyra Valley of the Tombs - Rock Cut Tomb in Syria
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Site WatchSite Name: Palmyra Valley of the TombsCountry: Syria
NOTE: This site is 54.682 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Rock Cut Tomb
Nearest Town: Palmyra Nearest Village: Tadmor
Latitude: 34.553300N Longitude: 38.250340E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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The earliest tomb dates to about 35 BCE while later ones were built about to about the 2nd century CE.
The tower like tomb of Elabel dating to 103 BCE, would have held up to 260 family members, including servants. The commercial underground Tomb of the Three Brothers dating to 135 BCE had room for 450 bodies, including the owners.
Note: 'Islamic State' occupiers destroy Tower Tombs, including the Elahbel tower dating back to AD 103, also the Palmyra Temple of Baal "Intolerable crime against civilization."
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