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Pictures of Travels in Syria: Damascus, Aleppo, Palmyra, Krak_des_Chevaliers, Apamea
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Great temple of Bel-Palmyra - Syria
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: There is an immense courtyard surfaced with smooth rock. The most complete structure and single most impressive part of the ruins of the area is this temple, also known as the Sanctuary of Bel.
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Valley of the Tombs-Palmyra - Syria
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The ancient tombs have been furnished new evidence about Palmyrene civilization. There are four types of burial place here: the tomb-tower, the house-tomb, the hypogeum-tower, and finally the hypogeum tomb, built to receive the bodies of one family, a real underground house decorated with frescoes.
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Palmyra - Syria
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Palmyra had an strategic location in an Oasis which made it an ideal halt for caravans trading in silk from China to the Mediterranean and transformed it into a prosper kingdom from the 2nd century BC. Emperor Caracalla declared it a Roman colony in 217 BC.
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