"[The] triumphal arc, which was built in the 3rd century in memory of the Roman Empire's victory against the Persians, looks ...
Though it's not as popular as the Colosseum (but located nearby), the Roman Forum ... the complex is in ruins, you can see the remains and imagine the former glory of the Arch of Septimius Severus ...
IS militants later destroyed Palmyra’s historic temples of Bel and Baalshamin and the Arch of Triumph ... ties to the Greco-Roman world. “Syria has a treasure of ruins,” Nabu said ...