Mystery of Lost Roman City Solved: Ancients Greened the Desert?
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 14:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
How did the monumental city of Palmyra survive the Syrian Desert? New finds suggest the ancients engineered a sort of green revolution.
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