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Discover the enticing Palmyra
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About Discover the enticing Palmyra
It is a city positioned in the heart of Syrian desert. It is located in an oasis, to the south-west direction of Euphrates and north-east of Damascus. Palmyra is also popular as Tadmor in Arabic and is normally called as the bride of the desert. The city bears a desert climatic conditions, drier and hotter summers and extreme cold winters. Palmyra has always been a dream destination of vacationers and its exotic sightseeing places that fully deserve to be paid a visit by you include; the colonnade, the temple of Bel, the stunning ruins, the hypogeum of three brothers, the funerary towers, the and the Arab castle.
Palmyra also presents the remains of the 2nd century AD, covering some 50 hectares and have been largely potted and unearthed. Archaeologists have also continually made new findings. Such as in year 1994, Belgian archaeologists hit upon Roman tombs southeast of the Temple of Bel. Moreover, the ruin of the Temple of Bel was truly very attention-grabbing because of the presence of noteworthy figurines of the then deities, who belonged to the civilizations that ruled with time. Lastly, during the time of Roman rule, Palmyra topped the chart of leading trading center and was a significant chain in the trade amid the Far East and Rome.
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