A 2nd-century gate in the Old City's Muslim Quarter offers a glimpse into the capital's multilayered history -- and complex present ...

Damascus SANA- Step through the ancient gates of Damascus Old City, and you’ll find yourself transported to a time of bustling caravans, exotic spices, and the vibrant hum of international trade.

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

The document, titled "Persecutions Against the Jews of Damascus ," was published in Paris in the same year and sold for 1 ...

The ancient city was designed to shield its fleet from ... The site is located west of the city and was built in the 6th century B.C. Damascus is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities ...

Damascus, SANA- Idlib Governorate ... this once-powerful city-state rivaled even the might of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Its rediscovery in the 1960s revolutionized our understanding of the ancient Near ...

Israel’s expansionist ambitions continue to drive the erasure of Palestine, raising the critical question: Can the US and ...

As its name suggests, tradition places its origin in the Syrian city of the ... a decade of studying Damascus steel—which he considered inferior to wootz—managed to reproduce a technique with results ...

Some non-Jewish locals, by contrast, have guarded ancient Torah scrolls ... “It’s a charming city,” he said of Damascus.

Maaloula is one of the world's few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have ...

Through sacrifice and unwavering faith, Abraham’s covenant with God prefigures the greater fulfillment in Christ, as depicted ...