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PALMYRA : CITY OF PALMS
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"Nothing in this scorching, desolate land could look so refreshing...Moslem story-tellers ascribe the building of Palmyra to the Jinn commandeered by Soloman..."
T.E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
 
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 Palmyra 

Survey of ruins
A Sheikh in Palmyra 

Simply vain 
 
 

 
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 		 Tributes from the Desert 

Carving in the Temple of Bel 
 
Descendant of the Ancients 

Bedouin boy-shepard with the  
Qalaat ibn Maan behind 
 

   
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Tower-tombs of Yemliko and Jambliq overlooking the ruins of Palmyra
 
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