Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...

“But our artifacts are older and from a different area on the map, suggesting the ... discovered in the unearthed ancient tomb in Tell Umm-el Marra, Syria, were the skeletal remains of six ...

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates - Tracking down the entirety of Thai artist Pratchaya Phinthong’s “We are lived by powers we ...

Kurdish forces were in control of 30% to 35% of Syria, the official said ... which dreams of redrawing the Middle East in accordance with the map of the Ottoman Empire,” he said.

Map of the Hellenistic world just over four decades after Alexander the Great’s death. The ancient Greek rulers of the successor ... New deities entered the Greek arena, from areas such as Egypt and ...

Palmyra is one of the most famous sites in Syria for its extraordinary heritage and archaeological remains. Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1980, the city saw much of its heritage destroyed ...

SANTA CRUZ — While a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz history professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with an alphabetic script whose ...

Israel could also make treaties that offer Syrian Druze protection and take steps short of formal annexation that hearken back to the epoch of Ancient Israel when Joshua made a treaty with the ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria is open to letting Russia keep its air and naval bases along the Mediterranean coast as long as any agreement with the Kremlin serves the country’s interests ...

The arrival of the first top Russian diplomat in Damascus since Bashar al-Assad’s fall kicks off negotiations over the fate of Moscow’s bases in Syria. By Paul Sonne and Christina Goldbaum ...

The head of the world's chemical weapons watchdog met Syria's new leader Saturday, in a first visit to Damascus since the ousting of Bashar al-Assad, who was repeatedly accused of using such ...