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Face to face with Palmyre sur Arte

2021-04-25T00:23:44.083Z


Director Meyar Al-Roumi offers, at 8.50 pm, an exploration of the mythical ancient city through his funeral sculptures. Without evoking, or very little, the ravages of Daesh.


Twenty centuries of winds and sands had not got the better of it.

It took Daesh explosives to bring down the small tower of Elahbel, one of the tombs in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.

From the 1st to the 3rd century AD, the dignitaries had them erected around the city so that, when they died, they would not completely desert the land of the living.

With funerary sculptures bearing their effigy.

Today there are 3,700, scattered throughout museums around the world.

The documentary

The Forgotten Faces of Palmyra

gives them, on screen, a setting worthy of their splendor.

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This film by Meyar Al-Roumi begins with a description of this former crossroads of trade routes classified as World Heritage by Unesco (

Le Figaro Histoire

devoted a special issue to it in 2020), located between Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean, between Europe and the Levant.

Trade reached its peak there under Roman domination.

As the images of the ruins of the ancient theater pass, a voice echoes

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Source: lefigaro

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