By Asad Mirza The American President Donald Trump in a significant shift in US foreign policy, recently announced the easing ...

This center of learning attracted over 10,000 students from regions as far as Persia, China, and Greece ... as Damascus, ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a ...

The ancient Greek lawgiver Draco introduced a new written legal system to Athens, but his code is remembered for its severity ...

The U.S. flag has been hoisted outside of the long-shuttered ambassador’s residence in Damascus. It's a sign of growing ties ...

Athens-based independent scholar Demetrius Savvides has shown that in Amphipolis, northern Greece, where the Kastas Monument ...

Damascus, Syria, continues to defy time, recognized as the world’s oldest continuously inhabited city. With over 11,000 years ...

The ancient Greek word daimon—from which the modern "demon" derives—referred to god-like spirits and supernatural forces. While a daimon could be good or evil, the latter was a malevolent ...

Nemrut Dağ stands at a crossroads where Persia met Greece in the ancient world. Its remote location meant that it was not scrutinized by Greek and Latin authors. But the site’s glory was ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Feeling overwhelmed by all the ancient archaeological sites? For a contemporary palette cleanser, head to the Tomato Industrial Museum, a renovated canning factory from the ...

Temperatures are soaring on the salt flats of Basra, exacerbated by climate change. But the local saltworks are turning that ...