PALMYRA, Syria – The Syrian city of Palmyra stood for decades as a shining example of ancient civilization, a caravan stop on the Silk Road that served as the capital of Queen Zenobia’s empire.

PALMYRA, Syria — This ancient city, once one of the most important stops on the Silk Road, bears the scars of ISIS attacks and more than a decade of Syria's civil war. It also carries Syrian ...

In the years of the Silk Road from China and India to Europe, Tadmor was a stopping place. It was renamed Palmyra after its conquest by the Romans in the first and second centuries A.D. In its ...

PALMYRA, Syria — Abdurahman Abu Hamza ... which flourished thanks to its position astride the Silk Road two millennia ago.

“was one of the most important cultural centers of the ancient world” — an important Silk Road hub where East met West more 2,000 years ago. A World Heritage Site, Palmyra is heralded by ...