Let us go a little back in time and re-visit Palmyra...

A picture is worth a thousand words… In this case, old photographs of Palmyra are giving us a rare window to the past; showing us the beauty, historical value and archaeological significance that this city once represented.

“These photographs represent rare primary documents of a region and World Heritage Site in crisis, preserving the memory of its ancient monuments and natural beauty for posterity,” says the Getty Research Institute’s (GRI) curator of photography Frances Terpak.

Let’s preserve the memory of these regions by sharing these pictures, and others from other parts of our Middle-East…