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Site of Palmyra

The ruins of the Graeco-Roman and Persian-influenced caravan city in the Syrian desert, inscribed in 1980.

34.6, 38.3 · approximate · Flourished 1st–3rd centuries CE; inscribed 1980; danger listed 2013; major deliberate destruction 2015–2017

Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.

listed on List of World Heritage in Danger — Danger listed in 2013 with all of Syria's World Heritage properties as a response to the armed conflict; the listing did not prevent the destruction of the Temple of Bel in 2015.
tests the limits of Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972) — Against a party for whom the heritage is the target rather than an obstacle, the Convention supplies documentation, condemnation and a later evidential record — but no capacity to intervene. Palmyra is where 'belongs to humanity' has no enforcement behind it.

site

The ruins of the Graeco-Roman and Persian-influenced caravan city in the Syrian desert, inscribed in 1980.

34.6, 38.3 · approximate · Flourished 1st–3rd centuries CE; inscribed 1980; danger listed 2013; major deliberate destruction 2015–2017

Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.

listed on List of World Heritage in Danger — Danger listed in 2013 with all of Syria's World Heritage properties as a response to the armed conflict; the listing did not prevent the destruction of the Temple of Bel in 2015.
tests the limits of Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972) — Against a party for whom the heritage is the target rather than an obstacle, the Convention supplies documentation, condemnation and a later evidential record — but no capacity to intervene. Palmyra is where 'belongs to humanity' has no enforcement behind it.