During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments reduced to rubble. Credit... Supported by By Ben Hubbard Photographs and ...

PALMYRA, Syria — This ancient city, once one of the most important stops on the Silk Road, bears the scars of ISIS attacks and more than a decade of Syria's civil war. It also carries Syrian ...

Syrian government forces (with a little help from Russia) battled for and recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra from the grip of ISIS this weekend. The retaking of the city, a UNESCO World ...

Traditional mud-brick houses that the people of northern Syria have built for thousands of years risk disappearing, as 12 years of war have emptied villages and left the buildings crumbling.

Nearly a century ago, Danish archaeologists traveled to the site of the ancient city of Hama, a region that was occupied for ...

Petersburg-based Institute of the History of Material Culture (IIMK) of the Russian Academy of Sciences will take part in a joint Russian-Syrian expedition that will be tasked to conserve ancient ...

As Syria's brutal almost 14-year civil war comes to an end, heritage experts are working to protect the remains of the country's battered cultural riches — and to reconstruct them.Images of ...

The mountainous region of Jebel Bishri is situated in central Syria (35-36 degrees N latitude, 39-40 degrees E longitude) the peak of the mountain locating ca. 50 km west of the city of Deir ez-Zor on ...

The landscape of Nadra area is characterized by several ancient rivers, wadis that occasionally have seasonal currents. The nomadic sites in the area are typical of the Greater Southwest Asian Arid ...

DAMASCUS, January 18. /TASS/. Nuns have returned to the ancient Orthodox Monastery of Saint Thecla in Maaloula, a Syrian town some 50 km north of Damascus which has been freed from terrorists and ...