Palmyra

Palmyra is an Oriental town built in a palm grove on a desert commercial cross roads linking the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea

allowing an easy trade from Asia to the Roman Europe. This trade was the source of Palmyra tremendous wealth.
Although it was built before the Roman era, the city was later reshaped to look like a Roman city. Colonnade streets, a triumph arch, Diocletian bath and an Agora were built. The city kept however temples devoted to the oriental gods: Bel, Baal Shamin and Nebo. Palmyrenians developed as well a distinctive funerary style: Families' Tower Tombs, a kind of show off displaying the family's wealth and power to the city. Many hypogea are also present in Palmyra and show the refinement and wealth of the city.
Archaeological museum displays some of the superb items unearthed during the archaeological excavations 

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