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Syria: The lion of Al-Lat (first century BCE), which stood at the entrance of the temple of Al Lat but was destroyed by ISIS iconoclasts in May,2015. Photo by Mappo (CC BY-SA 1.0)

Palmyra was an ancient city in Syria. It was an important city in central Syria, located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus and 180 km southwest of the Euphrates at Deir ez-Zor. It had long been a vital caravan city for travellers crossing the Syrian desert and was known as the Bride of the Desert. The earliest documented reference to the city by its Semitic name Tadmor, Tadmur or Tudmur (which means 'the town that repels' in Amorite and 'the indomitable town' in Aramaic) is recorded in Babylonian tablets found in Mari. The 3m high, 15 tonne limestone statue named 'The Lion of Al-Lat' was discovered in 1977 by a Polish archaeological mission at the temple of al-Lat, a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess, and dated back to the 1st century BCE.
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Syria: The lion of Al-Lat (first century BCE), which stood at the entrance of the temple of Al Lat but was destroyed by ISIS iconoclasts in May,2015. Photo by Mappo (CC BY-SA 1.0)
Palmyra was an ancient city in Syria. It was an important city in central Syria, located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus and 180 km southwest of the Euphrates at Deir ez-Zor. It had long been a vital caravan city for travellers crossing the Syrian desert and was known as the Bride of the Desert. The earliest documented reference to the city by its Semitic name Tadmor, Tadmur or Tudmur (which means 'the town that repels' in Amorite and 'the indomitable town' in Aramaic) is recorded in Babylonian tablets found in Mari. The 3m high, 15 tonne limestone statue named 'The Lion of Al-Lat' was discovered in 1977 by a Polish archaeological mission at the temple of al-Lat, a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess, and dated back to the 1st century BCE.
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