Ships of the desert and ships of the sea : Palmyra in the World Trade of the first three centuries CE /

In the Roman period the world from the Atlantic Ocean to the East China Sea was tied together by ships and caravans carrying textiles, minerals, aromatics, and other valuable commodities across vast distances. In the span of three short centuries the Syrian city of Palmyra rose from unremarkable ori...

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Main Author: Seland, Eivind Heldaas (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz verlag, 2016.

Series: Philippika ; 101.

Subjects:

Trade routes > Syria > Tadmur > History.

Excavations (Archaeology) > Syria > Tadmur.

Syria > Tadmur.

Tadmur (Syria) > Antiquities.