Daily Archives: January 27, 2011

From the capital, Damascus, we must have at least three hours a rocky and dusty villages to land on almost cinematic staging of Palmyra, the great caravan city that was incorporated into the Roman Empire and lived centuries of glory thanks to the transfer of goods and knowledge that flowed through the Silk Road from the depths of Asia to the Mediterranean ports. What remained of Palmira not overlooking the sea at all, but as already noted in the eighteenth Earl of Volney in his writings on the legendary cultures of the Middle East or Greece or Italy of antiquity left something comparable to what containing these ruins in the desert. Continue reading →