By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their homeland in Judaea across the Mediterranean and there were major Jewish communities in Syria ... get around Roman laws banning ...

Roman military installations and pottery have also been traced in inner areas of Jebel Bishri showing that the central areas were not devoid of the Roman control either. The maps illustrating the ...

Syria’s renowned landmarks ... The capital of an Arab client state under the Roman Empire, Palmyra holds particular significance as the site where Queen Zenobia famously led a brief rebellion ...

Wealth, culture, and power dwelled in the city of Palmyra in the third century A.D. This cosmopolitan capital of the Roman province of the same name lay close to the empire’s eastern borders ...