Astengo, G;
(2016)
The rediscovery of Palmyra and its dissemination in Philosophical Transactions.
Notes and Records: the Royal Society journal of the history of science
, 70
(3)
pp. 209-230.
10.1098/rsnr.2015.0059.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The rediscovery of Palmyra and its dissemination in Philosophical Transactions |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1098/rsnr.2015.0059 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2015.0059 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2016 The Authors. 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. |
| Keywords: | Palmyra, antiquarianism, travellers' accounts |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1502106 |
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