This book casts light on a much neglected phase of the UNESCO world heritage site of Palmyra, namely the period between the fall of the Palmyrene ‘Empire’ (AD 272) and the end of the Umayy
In 12 papers from the Seventh Century Colloquium, held in Edinburgh during May 2013, archaeologists, historians, art historians, and classicists test whether the seventh century can be studied as a un
