What a beautiful tribute to an ancient city, and the work and dedication of those who sought to understand and preserve its history.

So much history in my country ❤️❤️

The legends and facts about such places as Palmyra have fascinated me since I was a little boy. Thanks for posting this interesting documentary.

I had the pleasure of visiting this beautiful place back in 1999. It was an incredible experience.

They are dying not to say Syrian art and heritage They mentioned everyone's influence: Mesopotamia, eastern Greek Roman.. etc

Zenobia was polyglot and spoke aramaic, greek, arabic, latein Such a strong woman

It was a wonderful documentary shared by an amazing ( DW) documentary channel... documentary about ( Palmyra-Erbid) in Syria 🇸🇾 .thanks ...

There have been lately palmyran traces that were found in the UAE, Yemen, Egypt and South India too This shows how big and affecting Palmyra was in the region

So much priceless history has been lost to religious extremism.

Such an Amazing Video! I was utterly captivated by the meticulous research and storytelling woven throughout. The filmmakers showcased Palmyra's historical grandeur with such reverence. My heartfelt appreciation to all the individuals behind this documentary for their commendable efforts in preserving and sharing the legacy of Palmyra.

My city Palmyra 😢💔

Another excellent documentary for enrichment of all viewers!

It was New York for it's time. Must have been a humble experience to walk down main street of ancient Palmyra.

I actually cried when I watched this destruction on tv. I couldnt believe what I was seeing. And the destruction of artifacts in the museums. 😢💔

Beautiful Palmyra lands

Amsterdam, Chapeau,...what an amazing Quest...brilliant piece of work

Thank you.

Bravo❤❤❤❤ !!!!!....thanks a lot for this wonderful documentary❤❤❤❤❤

Excellent, thanks DW

Excellent documentary 💯👏

❤❤❤ very useful documentary

Truly an amazing story

Wonderful video , with the history and art details , thank you .

This video is excellent and interesting. Having visited most of the museums mentioned, I must have seen these sculptures scattered about, but their impact escaped me before. The fact that these are portraits of real people makes them more wonderful than the depictions of gods ancient cultures usually focus on. Besides Roman Egyptian encaustic portraits, which the Getty has a world class collection off, is there another ancient culture which so features individual portraits? I believe that there is a tomb statue of a woman from Syria in Northern England. It has featured in several documentaries. I now wonder if she brought the idea of it from Palmyra? Ideas or comments?

Isso só mostra o quanto o islã é bárbaro. I LOVE PALMYRA and Roman empire.

These beautiful windows into history getting blown to bits. It’s criminal, there should be rules of engagement to protect important sites. Trying to erase the history from the world. Sad.

Actually majority archeological sites and architecture still stands in Palmyra, ISIS did destroyed several temples and looted Palmyra Museum and even killed Director of Palmyra National Museum, but good news most of the treasure is still there or was transfered to Damascus.

beautiful city

Very interesting .🧐👍

hatra and palmyra unique civilizations with their own culture, language, traditions and methods :0

How did they film in Syria?

Bittersweet, visited twice with a group & solo. Last time I was whisked over to a family's house for dinner followed by a long bathe in a warm cistern in the oasis. As people finished work in the evening they appeared to clean up, complete with a box of detergant! Also visited the infamous theatre where people were erecting stands for a visit by Assad, who has a country estate nearby

Nice work, but it got me asking, where did the European museums got those ancient artefacts from?!

Informative video, but it doesn’t give an information why all these artefacts had been removed from the original site to end up in so many Western destinations. Are there any projects for returning the artefacts?

13:56 does she have 6 fingers? 5 fingers are shown with the thumb hidden?

Who knew that all the effort to preserve life after death would only end to provide grad students more job opportunity. Im sure thats what they wanted and hoped for on their eternal life.

Need 4k

what is the approximate age of this city

Where I grew up 🥹

Syria my country gave the humanity first note in history & first alfabit & first class made & first ships made & first grave in history ( habeel grave) & first wheat farming & ...

I wonder what the pointing finger in the portraits says to their relationships? A young man points to the elegant mother etc.

The true tragedy was the blowing up of what Aurelian had left standing!

13:51 6 fingers? or no thumb?

The True History of the lands and it's way of life, can only be credited to the Indigenous Human Beings of this region in present times....not some ignoramus juvenile delinquents from far away lands.....and that too....thousands of years later!!!!

Aramaic is not a death language and tens of thousands people in Syria still to this day use it,keep it Alive

There is little civics in schools. The history you mention is meager.

the mental giants who blew up this and other profoundly significant heritage sites (thinking of the giant buddhas in Afghanistan) forfeit their claim to human rights. im 100% certain that these people will never face justice either.

Aramaic: Isn't this the language of the Kurds? Also, a few parts of the Bible and much of the Gemara are in Aramaic. Seems this is not so difficult, no?

This documentary has condensed Zeobia's history to an extent that gives no credit to her husband and treats Aurelian's campaign too blithely. Aurelian only sacked the city on having to come back after treachery and then only had his soldiers dismantle the city - sparing the inhabitants the horror of a traditional sacking.

Why did you completely omit Khaled Al Assad the man who gave his life saving the remaining treasures of Palmyra from ISIS?

And than came along isis that destroyed everything 😭

Its upsetting that they stole the portraits, but at least they aren't destroyed completely like if they were still in the city

Zenobia is one of my favorite woma warriors. I'm so sorry to see what has happened to her land and people.

Many of the olden civilisations have ceased to exist because the rich in their society were heavily engaged in moral and financial corruption. So we need to remember a lesson that history teaches us

Discunsting destroying such important cultural historic site.

What commom era?....

Nije naše da procenjuje mo da li su stare gradjevine važne ili ne. Tužno je što su to rušenje sebi dozvolili.

A distinguished documentary, but there is always an attempt to obscure the local identity of the people of Palmyra by saying that it is Roman, Greek, and Sasanian antiquities, with no mention of the Arab Arameans.

No mention of the woman who was a judge, a center of law there? Baal worship?

Syria in general is rich in culture and history from east to west, but this country has undergone a lot of bad situations because of this diversity. Form Ugarit on the coast which is the birthplace of the first alphabet.. reaching Palmyra (the pearl of the desert).

A documentary about Arab city of Palmyra, that doesn't mention the word "Arab" can't be a coincidence. DW is never apolitical.

Šta je moglo da u ideji Palmire toliko zasmeta da bi bila bombardovana a u isto vreme omalovažena kao ne bitna?

It's good to know that there was a time before the scourge of Islam came into existence

If this site were in Germany DW would say " An ancient German city" ..they tried their best not to mention how Syrian Palmyra was. Very unprofessional "documentary"

Channel Host: This production has 2 points of purpose: 1) the HistoryArchaeology and Socio-Anthropolgy 2) to share the acts of an Aggressor's Destruction (Yet, the manner in which it is done, reveals the fact that the "Producer, Editor, Academics/Archaeologists, all thise involved in the creating and completion of this Film/Video and it's statement" (succumbed to the very energy it seeks to Judge). This indicates that they have yet to identify, understand, or comprehend the "Group that inflicted the destruction AND the more destructive element, that being the "emotional abuse", the more toxic of the energies the Aggressor applied. For, the video, "in its present state of Production" amounts to "another assault", it is the "Production Team, including the Academics' literally assisting their villain/aggressor through reapplying the act and its emotional abuse", for there's zero diffusion of the "Emotional Energy Weapon used that accompanied the Physical Weapons of destruction". It reveals the absence of the Academic's having any knowledge of this point, and therefore not employing any Sociologist and Social-Psychologist for addressing the "understanding of this Emotional Abuse and offering a solution that provides a resolution, healing and innoculating from this invisible element, for the symptoms of emotional abuse are the greater cause of a cintinuing pain and far more threatening destruction for thise in the experience and those whom come to hear and visualize the experience. 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It must be realized that all that exists is a result of what this Law defines, and in this 21st Century it is irresponsible to not be aware of it + practiced in the managing of ones own Thoughts and their having Established a correction to their learned "Thoughts and Beliefs Program" aka "Subconscious Thought Program", as it directly influences ones Thoughts, Beliefs, Actions, and their creating their Experiences of Reality. The "Universal Law of Attraction" defines that all in this Universe is, and is contingent upon "Energy, Vibration, and Frequency" All is "Energy, Vibrating on a Frequency". Thoughts and Feelings are Energy. "Thoughts + Feelings X Beliefs" = Our Frequency = Our Reality All Positive Thought Energies are found in our "Higher Mind" aka "Mature Mind" and it is where Wisdom resides. The "Lower Mind, aka Ego Mind, aka Adolescent Mind"bis where negative thought energies reside. NOTE: (Journalism includes all types of Information Sharining and in all forms, from "TV Advertising, Newspapers, Radio Broadcasting, Movies, Documentaries, News and News Commentaries aka Opinion News, etc".) What we: "Think, Say, Feel, and Believe" are what we are creating. Like Energies) Frequencies attract Like Energies/Frequencies. Being in the feelings of abuse and victimized brings more of the same. Being confident and secure, feeling happy and abundant, brings more of the same. I would appreciate the sharing of these valuable facts with the Channel Host,vand they with the source of this video. Sharing with everyone would/will he the most valuable act of goodness I can imagine. This is the 🔑 to Our and the Collective having Harmony, feeling and experiencing Wellbeing. To withhold this speaks its own message and is the identifying of the Undesired state of chaos, of abuse, of the 1% vs the 99%. 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Aramaic isnt a dead language, we SPEAK aramaic today tf 😂

Why, you guys at DW, didn't you say anything, didn't you accuse NATO, when it bombed Palmyra, when it launched mercenaries against the Assad government? Thanks to Russia, Palmyra did not disappear.

No "common era" for me. Bye bye

Stop laying about history with people.

there is no such thing as a greco-roman culture. there is greek and the romans were the greatest plagiarists.even latin is a dead language. its greek in origin and later failed and in disuse

Thank God for Islam

❤ thank you i love this

They were Arab Aramaic speaking people's as was also the Arabs of Jordan Petra.

About portraiture ..what about the terra cotta army? I think they prob developed it before romans.

Remember that Russia and the Syrian Arab Army liberated Palmyra from the ISIS who are funded by the US and Israel, and hence Germany as well; as Germany is part of the US empire. Remember Khaled al-Asaad, Syrian archeologist beheaded by the US/Israel funded and German tolerated Islamic State on 18 August 2015, at the age of 83. Germany has blood on their hand.

Excellent documentary 💯👏