Complex sentence: However, beneath the foreign influence, a local Semitic tradition defined the culture of the city, and according to Fergus Millar, Palmyra's culture is the result of fusion between the local and Greco-Roman traditions.
Split into simpler sentences: However, beneath the foreign influence, a local Semitic tradition defined the culture of the city. According to Fergus Millar, Palmyra's culture is the result of fusion between the local and Greco-Roman traditions.