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Human life is given meaning, focus, direction: by the past. In: BBC4 The Road to Palmyra – Dan Cruickshank	added by anonymous 5 years ago
I haven't done military service. It could happen, I could get called up, and you've no idea where they'll send you or how long you'll be there. I have friends and relatives in the army, Aleppo, Palmyra, for example, if they call me up I'll leave the country. I could try and find work in Beirut. – Nicolas Rahal	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Assad highly valued the help Russian air forces have provided and underlined that such successes as regaining Palmyra would have been impossible without Russia's support. – Dmitry Peskov	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
While we've seen no Russian airstrikes in the northern areas of Syria this week, it appears the Russians have conducted some airstrikes after all in southern Syria in the vicinity of Palmyra in support of the Syrian regime. – Patrick Ryder	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They are people in local antiquary societies, local museum curators, they are embedded archaeologists, they are people just like the poor fellow who was killed in Palmyra, Mr. al-As' ad, the people that are passionate about preserving their local heritage. – Roger Michel	Found on CNN 8 years ago
They destroyed an incredibly important architectural structure, it is the first structure in the Palmyra complex to be destroyed, although they recently destroyed two Islamic shrines nearby. – Maamoun Abdulkarim	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The priority for ISIS now is to capitalize on the momentum that is gained from taking control of Ramadi and Palmyra because this war has been about momentum shifts. – Ahmed Ali	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have just heard from our sources near Palmyra that all three birds and the egg are being kept in a safe place. – Assad Serhal	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I am deeply concerned by the situation at the site of Palmyra, the fighting is putting at risk one of the most significant sites in the Middle East, and its civilian population. – Irina Bokova	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It's tragic to see this destruction, each time you see this, you think it can't happen again, but it does. Now other Greco-Roman treasures are at risk around Mosul in Iraq as well as other artifacts in Palmyra and Raqqa in Syria Neighboring Syria. – William Webber	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Special authorities in Palmyra have done great work during the last year when they returned more than 120 antiques, the most important of which were tombstones that were secretly excavated. – Ahmad Deeb	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra. – Horace Walpole	added by anonymous 10 years ago

Human life is given meaning, focus, direction: by the past. In: BBC4 The Road to Palmyra

– Dan Cruickshank

added by anonymous
5 years ago

I haven't done military service. It could happen, I could get called up, and you've no idea where they'll send you or how long you'll be there. I have friends and relatives in the army, Aleppo, Palmyra, for example, if they call me up I'll leave the country. I could try and find work in Beirut.

– Nicolas Rahal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Assad highly valued the help Russian air forces have provided and underlined that such successes as regaining Palmyra would have been impossible without Russia's support.

– Dmitry Peskov

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While we've seen no Russian airstrikes in the northern areas of Syria this week, it appears the Russians have conducted some airstrikes after all in southern Syria in the vicinity of Palmyra in support of the Syrian regime.

– Patrick Ryder

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They are people in local antiquary societies, local museum curators, they are embedded archaeologists, they are people just like the poor fellow who was killed in Palmyra, Mr. al-As' ad, the people that are passionate about preserving their local heritage.

– Roger Michel

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They destroyed an incredibly important architectural structure, it is the first structure in the Palmyra complex to be destroyed, although they recently destroyed two Islamic shrines nearby.

– Maamoun Abdulkarim

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The priority for ISIS now is to capitalize on the momentum that is gained from taking control of Ramadi and Palmyra because this war has been about momentum shifts.

– Ahmed Ali

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have just heard from our sources near Palmyra that all three birds and the egg are being kept in a safe place.

– Assad Serhal

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I am deeply concerned by the situation at the site of Palmyra, the fighting is putting at risk one of the most significant sites in the Middle East, and its civilian population.

– Irina Bokova

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's tragic to see this destruction, each time you see this, you think it can't happen again, but it does. Now other Greco-Roman treasures are at risk around Mosul in Iraq as well as other artifacts in Palmyra and Raqqa in Syria Neighboring Syria.

– William Webber

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Special authorities in Palmyra have done great work during the last year when they returned more than 120 antiques, the most important of which were tombstones that were secretly excavated.

– Ahmad Deeb

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

– Horace Walpole

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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