THE AMERICA ONE NEWS
Jun 6, 2025  |  
0
 | Remer,MN
Sponsor:  QWIKET 
Sponsor:  QWIKET 
Sponsor:  QWIKET: Elevate your fantasy game! Interactive Sports Knowledge.
Sponsor:  QWIKET: Elevate your fantasy game! Interactive Sports Knowledge and Reasoning Support for Fantasy Sports and Betting Enthusiasts.
back  
topic
The Telegraph
The Telegraph
18 Dec 2024
Adrian Blomfield


Bloodthirsty butchers of Islamic State are again stalking Syria’s most precious site

Bathed in the glow of the winter sun, the colonnades of ancient Palmyra are perhaps Syria’s most precious sight.

Yet the days when awestruck tourists would clamber through the ruins of Queen Zenobia’s 3rd-century city are long in the past.

In the 13 years since the last coachload of tourists trundled through the desert from Damascus, 150 miles to the southwest, Palmyra has been a place of destruction and barbarism, haunted by recent ghosts rather than those of yesteryear.

Mahmoud al-Btman, like any Palmyran, is extremely proud of his city’s heritage.