Palmyra-Sana
The ancient Palmyra benefited from the location of their city on the Silk Road for international trade and their connection with neighboring civilizations.
Merchants were the real masters of the city, including its princes, governors, senators, and those in charge of public functions and leaders.
In this context, the curator of the Palmyra Museum, Dr. Khalil Al-Hariri, told SANA that the commercial convoy was the main resource to support Palmyra's old economy two thousand years ago. He pointed out that the cohesion of the people of the city and the establishment of centers and services for the success of the convoy is the main reason that led to the creation of a large income and strengthen the destructive economy, which in turn led to the development and prosperity of the city.
He pointed out that the archaeological architectural installations in the historic city of Palmyra came as a result of the city's revenues from trade, where the stores and warehouses required to receive goods coming to the city were prepared.
Hariri pointed out that Palmyra has dedicated the oldest free trade zone in the world.
Hariri pointed out that the tax system is about five meters long, two meters wide and weighs about fifteen tons. AD at the suggestion and request of the ancestors of Zenobia who were founded, as he put it, to Syrian nationalism in its early days.
Adnan Al Khatib