Eastern historians, such as the ninth-century Persian al-Tabari, believed that Zenobia was not Greek but of Arab descent. Modern historians agree that the queen of Palmyra did not descend from the ...

References to the pre-Islamic queen of the ancient city of Palmyra, Queen Zenobia, were to be removed, as were the names and images of pre-Islamic deities from the high school curriculum.

The significance of the great Syrian heroine Queen Zenobia, who once ruled Palmyra in the Roman era, seems to have been downplayed. The Assad era has essentially been excised from the curriculum ...

Yet the days when awestruck tourists would clamber through the ruins of Queen Zenobia’s 3rd-century city are long in the past. In the 13 years since the last coachload of tourists trundled through the ...