During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

The Roman Emperor Trajan (rule: 98AD–117AD) established 1000 strong dromedarii unit in Roman Syria. The practice of the empire was to include auxiliary units of locals into a regular Roman army ...

Syria is home to a shrinking Catholic minority, whose numbers fell from around one million in 2011 to fewer than 300,000 ...

By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their homeland in Judaea across the Mediterranean and there were major Jewish communities in Syria ... get around Roman laws banning ...

Palmyra had a history of cooperation with Roman rule, and this had resulted in many benefits for the desert kingdom. Located in the middle of modern-day Syria, around 130 miles northeast of ...

It also carries Syrian hopes of reviving the country's rich archaeological legacy. Palmyra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site — inhabited for thousands of years before it became a thriving Roman ...

Syria was then a Roman province, and this context shaped her later political life. Historical sources refer to Zenobia as one ...

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It also carries Syrian hopes of reviving the country's rich archaeological legacy. Palmyra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site — inhabited for thousands of years before it became a thriving Roman city on ...