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

Palmyra, Temple of Baal, interior, detail, Palmyra in 2002
Palmyra, Temple of Baal, interior, detail, Palmyra in 2002 © Gianfranco Gazzetti, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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