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Sites like playlist push9/13/2023 The Palmyra Museum is closed, and the much-loved lion statue, wgucg used to stand in front of it, has been moved to Damascus for restoration and safekeeping. In the town adjacent to the ancient site, some shops have reopened, but signs of war remain in the form of charred vehicles and burned-out or boarded-up stores and houses. Today, the road through the desert from Homs to Palmyra is dotted with Syrian army checkpoints. The militants later destroyed Palmyra’s historic temples of Bel and Baalshamin and the Arch of Triumph, viewing them as monuments to idolatry, and beheaded an elderly antiquities scholar who had dedicated his life to overseeing the ruins. IS demolished the prison after capturing the town. It was home to the Tadmur prison, where thousands of opponents of the Assad family’s rule in Syria were reportedly tortured. In more recent times, the area had darker associations. The ancient city was the capital of an Arab client state of the Roman Empire that briefly rebelled and carved out its own kingdom in the third century, led by Queen Zenobia. Without a coordinated preservation and restoration effort, said Kanjou, now a researcher at Tübingen University in Germany, “We will lose what was not destroyed by the war or the earthquake.”īefore the war, Palmyra one of Syria’s six UNESCO world heritage sites was the country’s archaeological crown jewel, a tourist attraction that drew tens of thousands of visitors each year. Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters.
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