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Cynthia Finlayson has been working in the Near East since 1974 and is currently the director of the Syro-American Expeditions to Palmyra and Apamea, Syria, as well as director for the Brigham Young University\/Syrian Department of Antiquities Projects at the Azem Palace in Damascus. Finlayson has also previously excavated at Petra, Jordan. 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