The Valley of the Tombs, in the hills to the south and west of the ruins of the Greco-Roman city, contains a series of funerary towers of various sizes. The towers were divided into compartments, or loculi, into which sarcophagi were placed before being sealed with slabs of stone carved with an image of the deceased and painted in lively colours.
See also Palmyra - Funerary Monuments
The Valley of the Tombs, in the hills to the south and west of the ruins of the Greco-Roman city, contains a series of funerary towers of various sizes. The towers were divided into compartments, or loculi, into which sarcophagi were placed before being sealed with slabs of stone carved with an image of the deceased and painted in lively colours.
See also Palmyra - Funerary Monuments
Archaeological Museum of the excavations in Palmyra
Archaeological Museum
Istanbul Archaeology Museums
Small museum with some sculpture and inscriptions.
Berlin, Altes Museum
Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz
Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Brussels, Koninklijke musea voor kunst en geschiedenis
Zeer uitgebreide collectie met Romeinse voorwerpen.
Paris, Louvre
The British Museum has one of the world's largest collections of antiquities from the Classical world.
First century AD graves of the Yamliku Family
Funerary tower tomb.
Palmyra city gate