Davin Lives

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  • Queen Zenobia

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    Queen Zenobia was the supreme ruler of Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean successfully defeating the Roman Empire in 240 AD and conquering Egypt freeing it from Rome.

    The city of Palmyria Was the capital city for Queen Zenoba’s empire.

    This is the ruins of her palace and Temple.

    In 270, Zenobia launched an invasion that brought most of the Roman East under her sway and culminated with the annexation of Egypt. By mid-271 her realm extended from Ancyra, central Anatolia, to Upper Egypt, 

    Septimia ZenobiaĀ (Palmyrene Aramaic:Ā š””š”¶š”¦š””š”©ā€Ž,Ā Bat-Zabbai;Ā c.Ā 240 ā€“ c. 274) was a third-century queen of theĀ Palmyrene EmpireĀ inĀ Syria. Many legends surround her ancestry;

  • Egypt-Temple of Karnak

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    Walls towering stone walls covered in hieroglyphs and pictures of the gods rising up from the desert floor

    Karnak contains many buildings dedicated to the different gods.

    The goddess Hathor

  • Syria-The Desert Oasis of Palmyra

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    Zenobia Queen of the dessert

    In 270, Zenobia launched an invasion that brought most of the Roman East under her sway and culminated with the annexation of Egypt. By mid-271 her realm extended from Ancyra, central Anatolia, to Upper Egypt, 


    We take the take a driver with a van to take us from Damascus out to the desert and the next day we hike up to the top of a mountain where thereā€™s an old ruined castle.

    This ruined castle on top of this small mountain looks over the oasis and itā€™s a fortress made out of stone and you can look through the slits of the fortress, and I was watching the sunset setting over the desert when I realized this was the place the Volney had sat when he wrote the manuscript .

    The Queen Zenobia Zenobia was a cultured monarch and fostered an intellectual environment in her court, which was open to scholars and philosophers. She was tolerant toward her subjects and protected religious minorities.

  • Jordan-Petra

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    From Wadi-Rum I picked up a bus in the desert headed for Petra, the forgotten city of stone. I stayed for two days in Petra, and then caught a taxi on to Amman. At night, taking in the music, the food and cities paint a picture as old as time.

    I crossed red sea over to Jordan on a ferry and continued to Petra then up to Accra and on into the desert.

    Petra

    Petra Monastery

    Petra is spectacular full of hundreds of tombs, houses and monuments carved into the sandstone cliffs. I had some time to draw, and write and contemplate the empires who have created these fantastic cities in the sand. It is inspiring to say the least, and so as the old and the new co-exist in a land of extremes, the people

  • Egypt-The Great Pyramids

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    I spent a month in Egypt travelling overland to visit the various temples and tombs left behind for thousands of years.

    Davin on Horseback at the Great Pyramid

    After a month travelling along the Silk Road through Jordan and Damascus I returned to Cairo and met up with my friends Alex, Daniel and Racheal where we stayed for a couple nights.

    Together we then went on a further adventure up the Nile to visit many more famous Egyptian monuments and ruins.

  • Egypt – Cairo

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