Queen Zenobia: Defiance Against Rome

Did you know one queen conquered Egypt, defied Rome, and almost replaced

it? Third century CE. The Syrian desert. An oasis empire called Palmyra stood

between East and West, and ruling it was a woman Rome would never forget.

Queen Zenobia. After her husband's death, she didn't mourn. She mobilized.

Fluent in Greek, Latin, Aramaic, and Egyptian. A strategist who

studied Cleopatra. A warrior who led from the front. She declared independence from Rome and swept

through the East like wildfire. Egypt fell. Syria bowed. Arabia followed.

She called herself Empress of the East and ruled from marble halls draped in silk and sand.