Pearl of the Desert: A History of Palmyra Rubina Raja

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190852224
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190852221
• Author(s): Rubina Raja

Palmyra has long attracted the attention of the world. Well before its rediscovery in the seventeenth century, the ancient city gained legendary status because of its Queen Zenobia, who in the third century CE rebelled against Rome and expanded Palmyra’s territory into what is now modern Turkey and Egypt. Even though Zenobia’s empire was a fairly short interlude and the Romans struck back hard, devastating the city, her path to imperial power was one which tells us much about Palmyrene identity in the period before the defeat. While Zenobia has gained renewed interest among both scholars and the press, and while she has served as a political symbol for Syria’s president Assad–a statue of her was recently erected in Damascus–the time leading up to her reign still remains underexplored.

Table contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1: Pearl of the Desert
Chapter 2: The archaeological beginnings
Chapter 3: A Flourishing World
Chapter 4: What crisis? The event of the 3rd century CE
Chapter 5: Queen Zenobia and the Palmyrene Empire
Chapter 6: Palmyra after the 273 CE sack until modern times
Chapter 7: The Syrian Civil War and its consequences for Palmyra
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Bibliography

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