The world of Palmyra2016

The contributions of this volume stem from a conference held at the Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters in December 2013. The conference 'The World of Palmyra' was organised within the framework of the Palmyra Portrait Project based at Aarhus University. The Palmyra Portrait Project compiles all known Palmyrene funerary sculpture and currently has 2,800 portraits. The second focus is of the project is the archeaology and history of Palmyra.