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- Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops - but she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio.
- An outcast Roman soldier wanders the desert on a quest for vengeance, only to find the rare chance at his own redemption.
- From Ukraine to Syria to the Central African Republic, the Wagner Group/Gruppa Vagnera/PMC Wagner is a mercenary outfit waging secret wars on Russia's behalf. A Russian paramilitary organization described as a private military company (or private military contracting agency), whose contractors have reportedly taken part in various conflicts, including operations in the Syrian civil war on the side of the Syrian government as well as, from 2014 until 2015, in the war in Donbas in Ukraine aiding the separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics.
- This passionate essay-film preserves the ISIS-destroyed antique city in unforgettable scenes taken before the war. But it gives also a critical account off the romantic discovery, plundering, archaeological research and commercialization of Palmyra.
- This program traces the development of mathematics in the Medeteranean region beginning with the Egyptians through the formalized geometry of the Greeks. Along the way a few remarkable methods emerged that predated formal mathematical methods by a thousand years.
- 1982–TV EpisodeModern satellites allowed archaeologist to locate the ruins of ancient Palmyra in present Syria. The oasis's position on major caravan routes enabled the great city of Baal to become a rich metropolis, at times coaxed or conquered by the Persians and successive Hellenistic neighbor states. A long-standing alliance with hegemonic Rome was broken by the usurping queen Zeonbia, who even invaded Roman province Egypt to compensate the cur-off Persian Gulf trade routes. Rome soon defeated and overthrew the seditious dynasty, but the reported devastation of the city isn't corroborated by digs, which suggest only climatic change causing floods and later drought spelled the end of the trading city.