Credit: JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images After recapturing Palmyra from the Islamic State (ISIS), the military is just starting to assess the destruction to the Syrian city's magnificent ruins.

SEE ALSO: Stark photos show the Palmyra ruins before and after ISIS Palmyra contains the ruins of a city that was a cultural crossroads of the ancient world during the 1st and 2nd century.

PALMYRA, Syria — Abdurahman Abu Hamza, a farmer from the Syrian city of Deir Ezzour, last visited the ancient ruins of Palmyra on a school trip as a child. Last week, he strolled with friends ...

“The (Palmyra) museum was in a deplorable state, with missing documents and artifacts — we have no idea what happened to them.” At the theater, the Tetrapylon, and other ruins along the main ...

AFP, Monday 10 Feb 2025 Syrians are once again picnicking and smoking shisha amid the ruins of ancient Palmyra, once desecrated by jihadists but still awe-inspiring, and open to the public ...

“The (Palmyra) museum was in a deplorable state, with missing documents and artifacts — we have no idea what happened to them.” At the theater, the Tetrapylon, and other ruins along the main ...

One of Syria’s six UNESCO World Heritage sites, Palmyra was once a key hub to the ancient Silk Road network linking the Roman and Parthian empires to Asia. Located in the Syrian desert, it is renowned ...

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