“This technology has been lost for about 200 years,” said Ben Bronson, curator of Asian anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and an expert on Damascus steel.

The Damascus National Museum is one of the most important in the world and contains archaeological pieces that tell stories about human life on this earth and illustrate the chronology of events ...

Syrians returned on Wednesday to the national museum in Damascus, reopened for the first time since Islamist-led forces seized the capital and ousted president Bashar al-Assad.The antiquities museum ...

The Damascus steel you’ll see in YouTube videos, TV shows, and elsewhere is a steel with complex bands and striations on its surface. It’s often used in knife blades, ...

Archaeologists in Poland uncovered 26 iron objects made from a single meteorite. The artifacts, discovered during excavations ...

Reibold’s team solved this paradox by analysing a Damascus sabre created by the famous blacksmith Assad Ullah in the seventeenth century, and graciously donated by the Berne Historical Museum in ...

The antiquities museum closed its doors on December 7, a day before Damascus was taken by rebel forces, over fears of looting. "We firmly shut the museum's iron doors after we saw the situation ...

Syrians returned on Wednesday to the national museum in Damascus, reopened for the first time since Islamist-led forces seized the capital and ousted president Bashar al-Assad.