ISIS deliberately destroyed ancient monuments and sites across Iraq and Syria, including Palmyra, Nimrud, Hatra, and Mosul’s historic mosques, targeting cultural heritage as part of their extremist ...

Christians are fleeing Syria to the point where their ancient communities may disappear.

Home to some of the last speakers of Aramaic, Maaloula was attacked in Syria’s civil war. Its residents are determined to rebuild–and preserve their mother tongue from extinction.

In ancient times, the mountaintops of Greece held the shrines and ritual sites of the gods. Now, they’re astonishingly ...

Some scholars however has questioned the wording used in the new labels in the Ancient Levant and Egyptian galleries ...

Ashes,' the directorial debut of Syrian journalist Daham Alasaad, follows the dogged efforts to bring Syrian war criminals to ...

The world’s largest ethnic group without an independent state is concentrated in Iran, Turkey, Iraq, and Syria ...

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A recently discovered Greek inscription at the base of a column inside the Great Mosque of Homs in Syria has rekindled a longstanding scholarly debate about the exact location of the Temple of the Sun ...