The Syrian oasis city Tadmor, better known as Palmyra, has received by far the most attention within scholarship on the Roman Near East over recent decades. New evidence and recent research allow us to better understand many aspects of Palmyra on its own terms, but it also has highlighted the lack of synthetically published data from Palmyra itself and from broader comparative settings. In this review article, we discuss the contributions of recent research on urban development, material culture, religion, environment, economy, identity, and heritage in Palmyra, as well as the implications for our understanding of wider dynamics in the Roman Near East and beyond.

叙利亚绿洲城市塔莫尔，更广为人知的名字是巴尔米拉，近几十年来在罗马近东学术界受到了最多的关注。新的证据和最近的研究使我们能够更好地了解巴尔米拉本身的许多方面，但它也凸显了缺乏来自巴尔米拉本身和更广泛的比较环境的综合已发表数据。在这篇评论文章中，我们讨论了最近对巴尔米拉城市发展、物质文化、宗教、环境、经济、身份和遗产的研究的贡献，以及对我们理解罗马近东及其他地区更广泛动态的影响。