Syria Studies

Bibliography Author: James Rory McInnes-Gibbons

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Rediscovered in the late seventeenth century by English explorers, it was not until the arrival of Robert Wood, James Dawkins and Giovanni Battista Borra that the ruins of Palmyra in Roman Syria were communicated more broadly to a Western audience. Wood’s Ruins of Palmyra (1753) – funded by plantation owner