Local and international experts are filling a government void, and have begun the process of mapping and assessing sites ...

The world of the Roman Empire was not just one of legions, emperors, and conquests — it was also a world of legal disputes, ...

Nearly a century ago, Danish archaeologists traveled to the site of the ancient city of Hama, a region that was occupied for close to 8,000 years. Hama, now in modern-day Syria, was first occupied ...

Burckhardt left Damascus on June 18 ... “Here are the remains of an ancient city, which I conjecture tobePetra...aplacewhich,asfarasIknow,no European traveler has ever visited.” ...

With its wide boulevards and tree-lined neighborhoods, Homs bustled with business, an oil refinery, and agricultural production. Sunni and Alawite Muslims, Orthodox and Catholic Christians—diverse ...

It comes across as an effort to draw up a rough balance sheet of the Left’s engagement with Philippine society by one who played a central role in it ...

To grow oranges for profit and pleasure, was one of my prewar ambitions. And in the course of learning the business I met, at different times and places, some exceptional persons including Mustapha ...

Though Tehran scrambled to help the Assads face off the rebel assault, soldiers were turning on their own commanders ...

DAMASCUS - Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani visited Damascus on Jan 30, the first visit by a head of state to the Syrian capital since the Dec 8 fall of President Bashar al-Assad to an ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

The tale of the ancient Greeks in Libya begins in 630 BC with a group of islanders from Thera, Santorini, establishing Cyrene.