While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...

Youstina Khoury, a Christian nun kidnapped by an earlier iteration of the group now running Syria, has forgiven the former ...

Nearly a century ago, Danish archaeologists traveled to the site of the ancient city of Hama, a region that was occupied for close to 8,000 years. Hama, now in modern-day Syria, was first occupied ...

Local and international experts are filling a government void, and have begun the process of mapping and assessing sites ...

It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched ...

A recent analysis of beads discovered in the ancient city of Hama, Syria, has revealed that some were crafted from Baltic ...

In his letter, Rabbi Hamra, whose father Avraham served as Syria's Chief Rabbi for 30 years, asked the leader to protect the ancient synagogues and graves across the country. "For thousands of ...

Scholars also worry about the ruins of Roman-era synagogues in Syria’s ancient cities, such as Apamea and Dura-Europos. Satellite imaging has shown that Dura-Europos was heavily looted while ...

Ancient City Defied Rome ... One of World's Top Terrorists Read Archaeologists Train "Monuments Men" to Save Syria's Past Archaeologists Train "Monuments Men" to Save Syria's Past Archaeologists ...

those whose families lived in Syria since ancient times and those whose families came to Syria in the 16th century after the fall of Andalusia and the expulsion of Jews from Spain. Jews in Syria ...

In a December 9 email, Archimandrite Emanuel Youkhana, a priest of the ancient Assyrian Church of the East, who administers aid in Kurdistan with the help of the New York-based pontifical CNEWA, ...