For Michael Danti of the University of Pennsylvania, the two decades before the civil war in Syria were “a golden age” for his archaeological work there.From 1990 to 2011, Dr Danti, who is also a ...

A touring exhibition of 195 Syrian artifacts held in China has captured widespread attention on China's social media platforms amid the dramatic and astonishing changes taking place in Syria.

Iraq recovered stolen artifacts from Japan and Switzerland, marking a significant step in preserving the country's rich ...

But Blitz said other artifacts from the site are feared to have been pilfered by combatants. “There has been tremendous fear about mosaics being looted,” he said of Syria’s ancient sites.

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

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

Prozorov noted that Western countries used the IS to steal Syrian artifacts. "After calling the IS a plague and speaking of it in terms of malevolence, representatives of Western governmental and ...

American-Israeli philanthropist who saved Jewish treasures at the beginning of the Civil War in Syria, plans to lead a delegation of Syrian Jews to return the artifacts.