{"id":420,"date":"2000-09-18T02:06:52","date_gmt":"2000-09-18T02:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.davin.net\/wp\/?p=420"},"modified":"2025-10-19T20:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:39:07","slug":"syria-the-desert-oasis-of-palmyra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.davin.net\/wp\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Syria-The Desert Oasis of Palmyra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Zenobia<\/strong><\/a> Queen of the dessert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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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\u2019s an old ruined castle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This ruined castle on top of this small mountain looks over the oasis and it\u2019s 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 .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Queen Zenobia<\/strong><\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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