Founded in the 3rd millennium B.C., Damascus is one of the oldest cities in the Middle East. In the Middle Ages, it was the centre of a flourishing craft industry, specializing in swords and lace. The ...

Damascus SANA- Step through the ancient gates of Damascus Old City, and you’ll find yourself ... that flourished in Damascus during its golden age. Khan As’ad Pasha wasn’t just a place ...

Nearly a century ago, Danish archaeologists traveled to the site of the ancient city of Hama ... researchers found Iron Age cremation graves with grave goods, one of which had 51 beads inside ...

Archaeologists are touting the discovery of the largest ancient ... City. ZAHI HAWASS: This city gives us lots of important information about the life of the Egyptian during the time of the Golden ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient city in the desert outside Luxor that they say is the "largest" ever found in Egypt and dates back to a golden age of the pharaohs 3,000 ...

Narrow, twisting cobbled alleys lead to ancient ... their city, providing it with food and moderating the summer heat. "Damascus was like a green emerald in the middle of the golden sands of ...

A recent fire that devastated a neighbourhood of the Ancient City of Damascus raised the alarm about the need to protect the old city, inscribed on the World Heritage list, from future catastrophes ...

A recent fire that devastated a neighbourhood of the Ancient City of Damascus raised the alarm about the need to protect the old city, inscribed on the World Heritage list, from future catastrophes ...

Amid the Shwam but not really among them, I grew up in Old Baghdad Street—a place crowded with “lesser” Shwam (residing beyond the Old City ... BC, Damascus is one of the most ancient ...

Even in a land as ancient as the Middle East the city of Damascus stands out. Founded in the third millennium B.C., Damascus vies for—and just might own—the title of the world’s oldest ...