Zenobia: Empress of the East

Exploring Zenobia's World. The Incredible Rise and Fall of the City of Palmyra

08 August 2016

A LEADING LADY IN ELEPHANTINE ON THE NILE (Part II)

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( Click here for Part I of this post) How a modest ceramic bowl became immodestly important This ceramic bowl once contained fresh f...
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24 July 2016

A LEADING LADY IN ELEPHANTINE ON THE NILE (UPDATED)

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Meet Lady Sattjeni, daughter of Governor Sarenput the younger. I'd love to be able to tell you what she looked like ... but, really,...
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11 May 2016

Writing Tablets from Ancient Palmyra (Part II): "The Forgotten Island"

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Part I of this post, click here Where in the world is Socotra? Desert rose ( adenium obesium) Situated smack in the middle of nowh...
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30 March 2016

Writing Tablets from Ancient Palmyra

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One story is good, till another is told Two men, by the names of Aesop and Babrius, and a schoolboy walked into a bar in ancient Palmyra...
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28 February 2016

THERE ARE NO WORDS (PALMYRA 2016)

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A journalist working for the Swedish newspaper Expressen has managed to place a hidden video camera on a bus on its way into Palmyra. This ...
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19 December 2015

Judith's Feast

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The Scroll of Judith You also, son of man, take a written scroll, feed your stomach and fill your belly with what I give you, and it will...
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Judith Weingarten
I studied Classical Archaeology at the University of Oxford (M.Litt.) and am a member of the British School at Athens. I excavated for many years on Crete and on the Greek mainland and travelled extensively in the Middle East. I have lived and worked among the ruins of the three great Caravan Cities: Petra, Palmyra, and Baalbek. It was at Palmyra in Syria that I began to tell the story of Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, and the rebellion that she led against imperial Rome. I was living within the grounds of the Temple of Bel, and at night, when the great gates of the temple were shut, I came closer to the spirit of the time and place than probably anyone has ever done before. I know that I felt very close to Zenobia, which made the book a joy for me to write.
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