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Pearl of the Desert - A History of Palmyra (Hardcover)
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Pearl of the Desert - A History of Palmyra (Hardcover)
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Palmyra has long attracted the attention of the world. Well before
its rediscovery in the seventeenth century, the ancient city gained
legendary status because of its Queen Zenobia, who in the third
century CE rebelled against Rome and expanded Palmyra's territory
into what is now modern Turkey and Egypt. Even though Zenobia's
empire was a fairly short interlude and the Romans struck back
hard, devastating the city, her path to imperial power was one
which tells us much about Palmyrene identity in the period before
the defeat. While Zenobia has gained renewed interest among both
scholars and the press, and while she has served as a political
symbol for Syria's president Assad-a statue of her was recently
erected in Damascus-the time leading up to her reign still remains
underexplored. Pearl of the Desert is the most comprehensive
history of this fabled ancient city in English. Assimilating the
rich archaeological and literary evidence, Rubina Raja unfolds the
story chronologically, from the earliest evidence of settlement in
the Bronze Age to Palmyra's rise as an urban center in the late
Hellenistic and Roman periods, its destruction by Rome in 273 CE,
and its survival in the Byzantine and medieval Islamic periods. The
book ends with a discussion of Palmyra's modern rediscovery and,
more recently, its chaotic misfortunes during the Syrian civil war
when it was used as a symbol of, alternately, the resistance of the
rebels, the power of ISIS, and the supremacy of the Syrian state.
After several years of destruction and looting, securing of the
site has begun as well as planning for its restoration. At this
turning point in Palmyra's long history, there is no better time to
assess the past, present, and future of this remarkable city.
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