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Palmyra : mirage in the desert

Palmyra: Mirage in the Desert (Symposium) (2016 : New York, N.Y.), Aruz, Joan, editor, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, host institution

Overview

In this important and timely publication, top international scholars present current research and developments about the art, archaeology, and history of the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Syria. Palmyra became tragic headline news in 2015, when it was overtaken by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), which destroyed many of its monuments and artifacts. The essays in this book include new scholarship on Palmyra's origins and evolution as well as developments from both before and after its damage by ISIS, providing new information that will be relevant to current and future generations of art historians and archaeologists. The book also includes a moving tribute by Waleed Khaled al-Asa'ad to his father, Khaled al-Asa'ad, the Syrian archaeologist and head of antiquities at Palmyra, who was brutally murdered by ISIS in 2015 for defending the site.

• Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ; distributed by Yale University Press
• Subject: Extinct cities Syria Tadmur Congresses. / Art, Ancient Syria Tadmur Congresses. / Art Syria Tadmur Congresses. / Antiquities. / Extinct cities. / Tadmur (Syria) History Congresses. / Tadmur (Syria) Antiquities Congresses. / Syria Tadmur.
• ISBN: 9781588396310, 1588396312

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DS99.P17 P325 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE