For over a thousand years, the network of Eurasian trade routes known as the Silk Road transported textiles, spices, and a myriad of other goods from Xi’an to Damascus. In the Pearl District, a ...

DAMASCUS, Va. (WCYB) — It had been a little over three months since News 5 saw the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) work on Highway 58. Since that time, crews have more than a mile ...

The world's oldest capital city is so ancient that it was inhabited as early as 10,000 BC. Syria's capital, Damascus, has claims to be the oldest continuously occupied city in the world.