It appears that the culprit at Tall el-Hammam was a small asteroid similar to the one that knocked down 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. It would have been a much smaller version of the ...

During an excavation at a site believed to date back to the Greek-era near Alexandria, archaeologists uncovered a stunning ...

To the north of Al-Ula's ancient Old Town is a 580-acre expanse protected ... Al-Ula is poised as the Middle East's next great vacation spot. You can travel to Al-Ula by flying to the Al-Ula ...

During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

It reminded someone so much of cities they had seen in the west that it was coined "the Manhattan of the Desert".

Syria’s civil war drove a wedge between the residents of the small town of Maaloula, where two-thirds are Christian and ...

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The ancient African town of Chinguetti was once a stopover for trade caravans and pilgrims in the Sahara Desert. As many of the people passing through were rich and educated, libraries started ...