Nearly a century ago, Danish archaeologists traveled to the site of the ancient ... artifacts to the National Museum of ...

In 2014, stealing Assyrian statues and other artifacts, ISIS plundered ... for 2,000 years or more.” Palmyra in Syria, Nimrud in Iraq: These ancient cities were critical to human history and ...

Iraqi authorities welcomed back 701 ancient artifacts worth hundreds ... "My feelings when I recovered the artifacts in Syria and when I got to my homeland and I was carrying Iraq's artifacts ...

The ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Syria’s central Homs province, stands as a haunting reminder of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Experts told Live Science it was probably the proto-Sinaitic script, which was invented about 4,000 years ago by Canaanite ...