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Palmyra

An image distributed by ISIS militants on social media purports to show the destruction of a Roman-era temple in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra

I’m one of hundreds of archaeologists exiled from Syria who’s mourning what the war is costing us

After the spring of 2011, archaeologists stopped working in Syria. Scientists aren’t uncovering new sites, many of which were destroyed, at the center of the earliest beginnings of human civilization

ISIS retakes World Heritage site Palmyra

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