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Isolated from the world in the middle of nowhere, the ancient caravan city of Palmyra fell to Rome, and she returned the honor by dressing of temples and public buildings whose ruins shipped in the desert an unexpected discovery.

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.

They say it could have been raised in King Solomon, but hesitates as to what the story is less about the strength and independence which reached Palmyra, connected with other business epicenters like today Nabatean city of Petra Jordan, and at Like the latter, favored both by its strategic location as taxes not insignificant that required anyone who wanted transit insurance for their domains.
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