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The rediscovery of Palmyra and its dissemination in Philosophical Transactions
This paper examines the first publicly documented western encounter with the ancient city of Palmyra as an archaeological site. This encounter was achieved in the late seventeenth century by a group of British merchants, who reached Palmyra and made drawings and reports of its ruins. The reports wer...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4978726/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31390424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2015.0059 |
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description | This paper examines the first publicly documented western encounter with the ancient city of Palmyra as an archaeological site. This encounter was achieved in the late seventeenth century by a group of British merchants, who reached Palmyra and made drawings and reports of its ruins. The reports were then published in Philosophical Transactions in the mid 1690s. This paper points to the ways in which such accounts came into being, as well as how the city was described and publicly communicated for the first time in Philosophical Transactions. These articles had a great impact throughout the following centuries as a reference for the study of Palmyra. This paper therefore also stresses the pivotal role of Philosophical Transactions for the production and dissemination of Palmyra's archaeological legacy, as well as for the development of early modern archaeology within the early Royal Society. |
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spelling | pubmed-49787262016-08-21 The rediscovery of Palmyra and its dissemination in Philosophical Transactions Astengo, Gregorio Notes Rec R Soc Lond Research Articles This paper examines the first publicly documented western encounter with the ancient city of Palmyra as an archaeological site. This encounter was achieved in the late seventeenth century by a group of British merchants, who reached Palmyra and made drawings and reports of its ruins. The reports were then published in Philosophical Transactions in the mid 1690s. This paper points to the ways in which such accounts came into being, as well as how the city was described and publicly communicated for the first time in Philosophical Transactions. These articles had a great impact throughout the following centuries as a reference for the study of Palmyra. This paper therefore also stresses the pivotal role of Philosophical Transactions for the production and dissemination of Palmyra's archaeological legacy, as well as for the development of early modern archaeology within the early Royal Society. The Royal Society 2016-09-20 2016-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4978726/ /pubmed/31390424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2015.0059 Text en © 2016 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Astengo, Gregorio The rediscovery of Palmyra and its dissemination in Philosophical Transactions |
title | The rediscovery of Palmyra and its dissemination in Philosophical Transactions |
title_full | The rediscovery of Palmyra and its dissemination in Philosophical Transactions |
title_fullStr | The rediscovery of Palmyra and its dissemination in Philosophical Transactions |
title_full_unstemmed | The rediscovery of Palmyra and its dissemination in Philosophical Transactions |
title_short | The rediscovery of Palmyra and its dissemination in Philosophical Transactions |
title_sort | rediscovery of palmyra and its dissemination in philosophical transactions |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4978726/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31390424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2015.0059 |
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