Palmyra Art Not As Bad As Feared
The Atlantic tells us: ‘Syrian troops on Sunday regained Palmyra, and for the first time since May 2015, when ISIS took the city famed for its 2,000-year-old temples and Greco-Roman ruins, the extent of damage inside the UNESCO World Heritage Site became apparent. “We were expecting the worst,†Maamoun Abdulkarim, Syria’s antiquities chief, said. “But the landscape, in general, is in good shape.†Let’s hope it can now be protected.
