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 ...

For 18 centuries the classical and early Arabic texts that reference Palmyra and, most notably, those which recount tales of its fabled Queen Zenobia, have inspired artists, poets, playwrights, and ...

Deep knowledge of the various phases of Palmyra's history in the context of the Roman empire. Familiarity with the relevant epigraphic, archaeological, visual, numismatic and literary sources.

and Palmyra and its surrounding area became a de facto independent city-state. Upon Odainat's death, his wife, the legendary Queen Zenobia, harbored ambitions to expand her control into other Roman ...

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 ...