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Oasis metropolis where Rome met Persia

This is a reconstruction of the underground tomb or hypogeum of Yarhal from Palmyra (Wikipedia: Hypogeum or Hypogaeum (plural hypogea) literally means "underground", from Greek hypo (under) and gaia (
This is a reconstruction of the underground tomb or hypogeum of Yarhal from Palmyra (Wikipedia: Hypogeum or Hypogaeum (plural hypogea) literally means "underground", from Greek hypo (under) and gaia (… © Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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