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

Valley of the Tombs, 1st century AD. Wadi al-Qubur. Some towers in this ancient 2000 year old landscape were blown up using explosives by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in 2015. The crossroa
Valley of the Tombs, 1st century AD. Wadi al-Qubur. Some towers in this ancient 2000 year old landscape were blown up using explosives by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in 2015. The… © Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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