Two thousand years ago a statue of a lion watched over a temple in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. More recently, after being excavated in the 1970s, it became an emblem of the city and a ...

Now the Lion of al-Lat stands proud again, after being carefully restored by Polish archaeologist Bartosz Markowski and re-erected in Damascus. Russian soldiers attend the unveiling ceremony of ...

The Lion of al-Lāt, as the statue is known, was badly damaged, but it was not destroyed. As Kinda Makieh reports for Reuters, the towering relic has been restored, and on Sunday, it was put on ...

After this it was placed in front of the Palmyra museum. Across the left paw of the lion is a Palmyrene inscription: "May al-Lat bless whoever does not spill blood on this sanctuary." The goddess ...