'The intoxication of ruins is the soaring of the imagination,
where huge episodes are tangled with myths and dreams; it
is the stunning impact of world history on its amazed heirs.'
City of the Warrior Queen - Syria
In the desert of central Syria where a featureless landscape
diminishes to an infinite horizon, amid an inhospitable rock-strewn
scene, are the remains of one of the most extraordinary cities
in antiquity – Palmyra, City of Zenobia, the warrior
queen. Syria has so much to offer, and Palmyra is just the
beginning.
City of the Decapolis - Jordan
At Jerash, ancient Gerasa, a city of the Decapolis, walk
through the unique oval forum, along its colonnaded streets
or up the monumental marble staircase into the Temenos of
Artemis and experience the grandeur of the Roman East. That's
before you've even reached the Nabatean fantasy of Petra.
Among the mountain folds of the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon
- Hollow Syria as the Romans called it - is one of THE great
Classical sites of all time - the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek,
and next to it the Temple of Bacchus.
The Tears of Isis - Egypt
The eternal Nile, the tears of Isis, has given us one of
the greatest ancient civilizations in the world. Sailing down
its majestic waterway and walking through the Temple of Luxor
or Karnak, it is easy to see how the ancient Egyptians thought
this was the centre of the Universe. In our own age of 'bigness',
the Egyptian past is truly gigantic!
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