Timelapse footage shows the Milky Way passing over Syria's ancient ruins of Palmyra. Palmyra is one of six Syrian sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list, all of which suffered varying degrees ...

A 2,000-year-old Roman stele featuring Greek inscriptions was discovered at Manbij, also known as the ancient city of ...

The emergence of large, organized armies marks one of the most significant shifts in the history of warfare, especially in ...

There was no one type of slavery in ‘biblical’ or ‘ancient’ societies, given how varied they were. But much of what ...

The land’s ancient Christian communities – the biblical Book of Acts notes that “in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians” – were decimated by the Syrian civil ...

A picture taken on Jan. 29, 2018, shows destruction at the ancient temple of Ain Dara, some four miles from Afrin, after it was damaged in Turkish air strikes according to Syria's antiquities ...

By drawing on material from an area encompassing modern Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey, as well as Egypt and Achaia, the contributions in this book make it possible for the first time to take a ...

The land's ancient Christian communities — the biblical Book of Acts notes that "in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians" — were decimated by the Syrian civil war ...