A 2nd-century gate in the Old City's Muslim Quarter offers a glimpse into the capital's multilayered history -- and complex present ...
The assassination of Julius Caesar was reenacted in Rome at the exact same place where it had taken place 2,000 years ago.
As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...
Gaziantep has ancient roots ... Larissa’s daughter. The site is located west of the city and was built in the 6th century B.C. Damascus is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities ...
ARTEFACTS made from extraterrestrial metal have been discovered by archaeologists in two ancient cemeteries in ... It significantly predates Damascus steel, which is used in modern knives.
Some non-Jewish locals, by contrast, have guarded ancient Torah scrolls ... Rabbi Asher Lopatin poses at a Jewish historic ...
The carvings offer a window into AlUla’s past, but its present is a story still unfolding. Here, nature and heritage converge, with open-air museums emerging amidst the desert’s timeless expanse — ...
A group of American Jews, who fled Syria decades ago, have made an emotional appeal to the White House. They are asking the U ...
The fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria in December was viewed by the country’s minorities with a mixture of cautious optimism and apprehension. Just three months later, a wave of violence has made ...
The leaders of the autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq on Sunday commemorated the Halabja massacre of Kurds that ...
Rabbi Asher Lopatin poses at a Jewish historic site in Damascus, Syria ... Some non-Jewish locals, by contrast, have guarded ancient Torah scrolls, preventing them from being damaged or lost.