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LIKE all ancient cities of the East that have once been centres of trade and culture, but are now only marked by piles of ruins and a few squalid huts, Palmyra has a strange fascination. Though on the edge of the Syrian desert, the site of this ancient city is but five days' journey from Damascus, so that her ruins have been thoroughly explored, her inscriptions copied, and all facts that might be of interest to the man of science, the archæologist, or the historian, have been obtained from her. On opening Dr. William Wright's “Palmyra and Zenobia,” therefore, we did not look to find anything very startling or original.
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The Royal City of Zenobia1. Nature 53, 132–133 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/053132a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/053132a0