Palmyra: the modern destruction of an ancient city

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Terrorists overran Palmyra twice despite international cries for protection, sowing irreversible destruction.

 

A conversation between Dr. Salaam al-Kuntar and Dr. Steven Zucker about the ancient city of Palmyra while looking at six funerary reliefs, c. 150-200 C.E., varying dimensions, limestone (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). An ARCHES video.

Cite this page as: Dr. Salam Al Kuntar and Dr. Steven Zucker, "Palmyra: the modern destruction of an ancient city," in Smarthistory, January 5, 2018, accessed March 22, 2023, https://smarthistory.org/palmyra-destruction-2/.