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

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

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

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 ...

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

When three-year-old Ziv Nitzan was out walking with her family in Israel, her sharp eyes spotted an usual stone. It was an ancient Egyptian artifact.

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 ...

In the Triumph of Orthodoxy service on the first Sunday of Great Lent, the clergy and faithful proclaim – with many shouting – bold statements of faith from the year 787. "This is the Faith of ...