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 there’s an old ruined castle.
This ruined castle on top of this small mountain looks over the oasis and it’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.
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