Palmyra: A look inside recaptured ancient city in Syria - BBC News
Government forces, backed by the Russian military, who recaptured Palmyra on Sunday, say they will use the ancient city as a base to launch more attacks against the Islamic State group (IS).
The Unesco World Heritage site was occupied by the group for 10 months.
Footage from inside the site shows that much of it is still standing, although there is also extensive damage.
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ISIS destroys historic ruins in Palmyra, Syria
ISIS has destroyed a 2,000-year-old UNESCO Heritage Site temple in Palmyra, Syria. CBS News State Department correspondent Margaret Brennan joins CBSN with details.
ISIL captures UNESCO World Heritage site of Palmyra
ISIL fighters have entered the Unesco World Heritage site of Palmyra, in Syria.
The narrative of recent months, that ISIL's momentum had been stalled, has been shattered by its advances. Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's biggest province, and Palmyra, the cradle of civilisation are now in its hands.
Al Jazeera's Caroline Malone reports.
ISIS destroys historic sites in Palmyra, Syria
After retaking the city of Palmyra, ISIS has apparently destroyed Roman-era ruins.
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Shocking destruction: Roman theater destroyed by ISIS in Syria's Palmyra
Shocking destruction: Roman theater destroyed by Islamic State in Syria's #Palmyra. Ruins of the 2,000-year-old historic site stand testimony to the brutality of the jihadist group as it razed parts of Palmyra, a World Heritage Site once known as bride of the desert.
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Site of Palmyra (UNESCO/NHK)
An oasis in the Syrian desert, north-east of Damascus, Palmyra contains the monumental ruins of a great city that was one of the most important cultural centres of the ancient world. From the 1st to the 2nd century, the art and architecture of Palmyra, standing at the crossroads of several civilizations, married Graeco-Roman techniques with local traditions and Persian influences.
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Ancient Palmyra, Syria
Palmyra is an ancient Semitic city. Archaeological finds date back to the Neolithic period, and documents first mention the city in the early second millennium BC. Palmyra changed hands on a number of occasions between different empires before becoming a subject of the Roman Empire in the first century AD.
The city grew wealthy from trade caravans; the Palmyrenes became renowned as merchants who established colonies along the Silk Road and operated throughout the Roman Empire. Palmyra's wealth enabled the construction of monumental projects, such as the Great Colonnade, the Temple of Bel, and the distinctive tower tombs. Ethnically, the Palmyrenes combined elements of Amorites, Arameans, and Arabs. The city's social structure was tribal, and its inhabitants spoke Palmyrene (a dialect of Aramaic), while using Greek for commercial and diplomatic purposes. Greco-Roman culture influenced the culture of Palmyra, which produced distinctive art and architecture that combined eastern and western traditions. The city's inhabitants worshiped local Semitic deities, Mesopotamian and Arab gods.
By the third century AD Palmyra had become a prosperous regional center. It reached the apex of its power in the 260s, when the Palmyrene King Odaenathus defeated Persian Emperor Shapur I. The king was succeeded by regent Queen Zenobia, who rebelled against Rome and established the Palmyrene Empire. In 273, Roman emperor Aurelian destroyed the city, which was later restored by Diocletian at a reduced size. The Palmyrenes converted to Christianity during the fourth century and to Islam in the centuries following the conquest by the 7th-century Rashidun Caliphate, after which the Palmyrene and Greek languages were replaced by Arabic.
Before AD 273, Palmyra enjoyed autonomy and was attached to the Roman province of Syria, having its political organization influenced by the Greek city-state model during the first two centuries AD. The city became a Roman colony during the third century, leading to the incorporation of Roman governing institutions, before becoming a monarchy in 260. Following its destruction in 273, Palmyra became a minor center under the Byzantines and later empires. Its destruction by the Timurids in 1400 reduced it to a small village. Under French Mandatory rule in 1932, the inhabitants were moved into the new village of Tadmur, and the ancient site became available for excavations. During the Syrian Civil War in 2015, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) destroyed large parts of the ancient city, which was recaptured by the Syrian Army on 2 March 2017.
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Syria: Palmyra ruins 'stolen and destroyed' by IS - Director of Palmyra Museum
Director of the Palmyra Museum highlighted the extent of the damage inflicted on the historical site of Palmyra by the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), speaking from the ancient site, Thursday.
Mohammed Al-Asaad, director of the Palmyra Museum, noted that IS committed terrorist acts and stole everything they could lay hands on in Palmyra and the surrounding ancient areas.
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ISIS controls ancient city of Palmyra
CNN's Ivan Watson reports on the fall of a beautiful historic city of Palmyra to ISIS militants.
Syria regime forces retake ancient Palmyra
Syrian government forces recaptured the famed ancient city of Palmyra on Sunday in a major symbolic victory over the Islamic State jihadist group.
ISIL blows up another historic site in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra
One of the most important historic sites, the ancient temple of Baal Shamin in Syrian city of Palmyra, has been blown up by ISIL, said a monitoring group. ISIL has destroyed several heritage sites since the group seized full control of the ancient oasis city on May 20th of this year.
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Palmyra: Why is Islamic State destroying ancient cities? BBC News
The Islamic State (IS) group has taken over the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, and there are growing fears it could be destroyed.
Why does IS destroy ancient historical sites, and where else has cultural heritage been affected by conflict? BBC News explains in 60 seconds. Video produced by Mohamed Madi
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Palmyra - Syria
Palmyra is an ancient city and is situated in the desert of Syria. The city was occupied by a number of empires before falling under the control of the roman empire. The city was recently occupied by Isis and risked being destroyed. However it was liberated by the Syrian army in March 2016.
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A journey to the ancient city of Palmyra/Syria in the seventies
How the ancient city of Palmyra looked in the 1970ies.
This film is a travellogue of a German adventurer who travelled with his VW bus T1 to Syria, filming historical sites which now are under threat of destruction bei fighters of the so called Islamic State.
Palmyra, once a Silk Road hub and one of the cultural centres of the ancient world that occupies mytlhological status in Syria, is home to some of the most beautiful and well-preserved ruins of antiquity, including the Temple of Bel, built in the first century.
Isis considers the preservation of such historical ruins a form of idolatry and has destroyed temples and historic artefacts, as well as ancient Assyrian sites in Nineveh in Iraq, after conquering the province in a lightning offensive last year.
The group has profited from looting such treasures, in addition to scoring propaganda victories through the wanton destruction of archaeological sites, and Palmyra is likely to face a similar fate.
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Islamic State Begins Demolition of Ancient Syrian Sites in Palmyra
Islamic State militants have blown up two ancient shrines in Palmyra that they consider sacrilegious.
Syria's antiquities chief added, they destroy them because they see them as sacrilegious and a return to paganism.
These developments are the first reports of deliberate destruction to structures within the 2000-year-old UNESCO World Heritage site.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights have noticed militants planting mines throughout Palmyra, though they are not sure of their intentions.
Before-and-after pictures showed militants carrying explosives and the shrines reduced to rubble.
The destruction of antiquities, both artifacts and historical sites, by the Islamic State have occurred in Iraq and Syria.
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The ruins of the ancient city of Palmyra rise up into the desert sky of Syria. The Hadrian Gate was built in the second century A.D. and highlights the glorious past of this once important trading metropolis in the Near East.Flanked by columns, a majestic twelve hundred metre long avenue was once Palmyra’s main street. As with many of the city’s other buildings it also has an impressive theatre that dates back to the second century A.D. and was discovered in the 1950’s. For some years it has once again served as a place of entertainment as each spring it features a festival. Close to the Agora, once a farmer’s market, is Palmyra’s striking main landmark, the Tetrapylon that forms the junction between the main avenue and a side road that leads to the city’s Necropolis. The subterranean Hypogaum Of The Three Brothers contains almost four hundred burial corridors and numerous artistic sculptures and frescos. From the seventh century A.D. the magnificent trading metropolis gradually fell into decline and was almost completely wiped from the map. Thankfully however, today the atmospheric ruins serve as a reminder of Palmyra’s glorious past.
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ISIL destroys two historic sites in Palmyra
ISIL fighters have destroyed two Islamic shrines close to the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra or Tadmur, as it's also known.
It's the first time they've targeted historical sites since they took over the city, but experts fear there's more destruction to come.
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports.
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