oa From Tadmor to Palmyra, 1923–1929: The (Re-)creation of an Ancient City

In this article, we investigate aspects of how Palmyra was explored scientifically in the 1920s. Through publications and material in the so-called Ingholt Archive, it is possible to investigate different stakeholders and how they understood the urban past and their contemporary understanding of Tadmor/Palmyra. The first is the French Mandate Antiquities Service, under whose control the village of Tadmor with the ruins of Palmyra was. The second is Harald Ingholt himself. The third, and crucially important, but also least represented and practically voiceless in our sources, is the local population of Tadmor.