Description: Stopping-place for caravans taking the short route from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean, as well as for those taking the silk Route and crossing the Tigris near Seleucis in Babylon. Tadmor is mentioned on tablets in Cappadocia This remarkable site in the center of the Syrian desert became a necessary dating from the 19th century B.C. From the end of the second millennium Aramaic was the language spoken there, this language persisted until the Byzantine period. Its distinctive written script was respected; later on there were few Greek inscriptions, still fewer Latin ones; Arabic script was very mud, influenced by Palmyrene.