Mystery of Lost Roman City Solved: Ancients Greened the Desert? [1]
Andrew Curry
for National Geographic News [2]
Published July 18, 2012
Monumental ruins provide solid evidence of centuries of Roman rule at Syria's Palmyra.
Photograph by Annie Griffiths, National Geographic
Today it's a mirage-like expanse of monumental ruins. But under the Roman Empire, Palmyra was a trading metropolis, according to historical and archaeological evidence.
Despite nearly a century of research, though, a key question remains unanswered: How did this city of 200,000 thrive in the middle of an infertile Syrian [3] desert [4]?
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