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Bride of the desert — the caravan city that briefly rivaled Rome

A statue in the Elahbel tower tomb, Palmyra, Syria
A statue in the Elahbel tower tomb, Palmyra, Syria © Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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