Zenobia (240– c. 274 AD)   was a 3rd century Syrian queen of the Palmyrene Empire     Queen Zenobia’s Last Look Upon Palmyra, by Herbert Schmalz. Original on exhibit, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.   Family, ancestry and early life Zenobia was born and raised in Palmyra, Syria. Her Roman name is Iulia Aurelia Zenobia, while her name […]

Photo: Mathieu Rocheleau, Canadian episkopic mission of Xanthos-Letoon in Lycia, modern Turkey The “Stele” of the Kytenians was discovered at Xanthos, in which the latter the latter appeal to the Xanthians for help in restoring the walls of their city. In the Stele we find references to the Heracleid origins of the Kings Ptolemy and Antiochus. J. Bousquet (1988: 14-16, […]