Modern historians agree that the queen of Palmyra did not descend from the Ptolemies and most likely came from an influential Palmyrene family in which she had been well educated. Consolidating ...

Some say that it was owned by Zenobia, who reigned as the Queen of Palmyra and the Palmyrene Empire, acting as the regent for her infant son, Vaballathus. As the folk lore has it, Queen Zenobia ...

Bathed in the glow of the winter sun, the colonnades of ancient Palmyra are perhaps Syria’s most precious sight. Yet the days when awestruck tourists would clamber through the ruins of Queen Zenobia’s ...