Scientists find evidence for foodinsecurity driving international conflict 2,000 years ago PLOSONE
], which the Roman army at the time could not contest. The city’s military confidence was so high that Zenobia even suggested joint rule between her son Vaballathus and the new emperor Aurelian . The caravan city was then acting like a military power on its own right, able to challenge Rome itself.
Here we explored the effects of changes in climate, and more specifically, rainfall variation on the food security of this desert city and possible implications to its historical trajectory. As discussed, the currently available paleoclimatic evidence is not ideal, and higher resolution palaeoclimatic proxies closer to Palmyra would make a more firm assessment possible.
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