Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Site of Palmyra' has mentioned 'Desert' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| [17] Pliny the Elder described the town in the 70s AD as famous for its desert location, for the richness of its soil,[18] and for the springs surrounding it, which made agriculture and herding possible. | WIKI |
| The Hebrew Bible (Second Book of Chronicles 8:4) records a city by the name "Tadmor" as a desert city built (or fortified) by King Solomon of Israel;[180] Flavius Josephus mentions the Greek name "Palmyra", attributing its founding to Solomon in Book VIII of his Antiquities of the Jews. | WIKI |
| This scenario can explain the usage of Aramaic by the Elephantine Jews, and Papyrus Amherst 63, while not mentioning Palmyra, refers to a "fortress of palms" that is located near a spring on a trade route in the fringes of the desert, making Palmyra a plausible candidate. | WIKI |
| [193] The earliest known inscription in Palmyrene is dated to around 44xc2xa0BC;[51] Palmyra was still a minor sheikhdom, offering water to caravans which occasionally took the desert route on which it was located. | WIKI |
| [139] During the first century Palmyra developed from a minor desert caravan station into a leading trading center,[note 21][194] with Palmyrene merchants establishing colonies in surrounding trade centers. | WIKI |
| "[387] Palmyra's army protected the city and its economy, helping extend Palmyrene authority beyond the city walls and protecting the countryside's desert trade routes. | WIKI |
| Palmyra's economy before and at the beginning of the Roman period was based on agriculture, pastoralism, and trade;[18] the city served as a rest station for the caravans which sporadically crossed the desert. | WIKI |
| [447] Palmyra was a minor trading center until its destruction in 1400;[448] according to Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi, Timur's men took 200,000 sheep,[449] and the city was reduced into a settlement on the desert border whose inhabitants herded and cultivated small plots for vegetables and corn. | WIKI |
| Since Palmyra was not on the main trading route (which followed the Euphrates),[18] the Palmyrenes secured the desert route passing their city. | WIKI |
| However the setting is vulnerable to the encroachment of the adjacent town that could impact adversely on the way the ruins are perceived as an oasis closely related to their desert surroundings. | UNESCO |