Access to the ancient Palmyra, parts of it mined, was forbidden even to the few local residents who remained put. A Russian archaeological mission started working on the site but never executed its ...

Palmyra, SANA- The joint committees of the General ... their field work within the first phase of the restoration of the Arch of Triumph in Palmyra. That came in accordance with the agreement ...

Palmyra (Tadmor) is one of the richest cities ... destroyed several ancient monuments, including the Monumental Arch, the Lion of Al-Lat, the Temple of Baalshamin as well as the city’s largest ...

IS 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 ...

Mahmoud said he wanted to reopen his stall selling trinkets and jewellery once visitors returned to Palmyra -- which attracted more than 150,000 tourists a year before civil war broke out in 2011.

Palmyra is one of the most famous sites in ... including Roman remains such as the Tetrapylon (a monumental square platform bearing at each corner a tight grouping of four columns, dating from ...

The remains of Arch of Triumph, also called the Monumental Arch of Palmyra, that was destroyed byDaesh militants in October 2015 in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra Five Nobel prize winners are ...

When the Islamic State (IS) captured the town, they demolished the prison and later set about destroying Palmyra’s iconic monuments, including the temples of Bel and Baalshamin, as well as the Arch of ...

ISIS 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 ...