Following more than five decades of repression under the Assad regime, these artists are seizing the moment of cultural revival.

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

In Britain, archaeologists have found Iranian and Egyptian beads, Scandinavian amber items, Aegean metalwork, Cypriot and ...

SYRIAN government troops advanced towards Palmyra yesterday where Isis philistines have destroyed more ancient monuments ... showed a central section of its famous Roman theatre laying in ruins, said ...

once thrived as a key hub on the ancient Silk Road, linking the Roman and Parthian empires to Asia. Situated in the Syrian desert, the site is home to remarkable 2,000-year-old Roman-era ruins.

While the world's spotlight is on the tragedy in Myanmar, the rebirth of the Turkish region struck by an equally powerful ...

A skateboard inscribed with an Armenian folk song. Kim Kardashian in Aleppo’s souqs. Stephany Sanossian’s mixed media fever ...

The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper ... Spain and Portugal in the West to what are now Turkey, Syria, Israel, Cyprus and Crete in the east. A series of ground-breaking discoveries are revealing ...

Petra, carved into the rose-red cliffs of Jordan, continues to reveal its secrets. Early mapping techniques unveiled in 2016 revealed the potential ruins of a vast structure hidden beneath the sands, ...

Going to Israel amid an ongoing geo-political disturbance in the region after October 2023, naturally was a matter of concern to family members and friends but for me it was an opportunity to explore ...