It further recommends to avoid such work at all costs so as not to compromise the authenticity of other World Heritage sites, as for example, the monuments of the Ancient City of Aleppo ... to send an ...

As Syrian opposition forces “entered” capital Damascus after having taken control of key cities, President Bashar al-Assad on ...

Metallurgists have puzzled for several centuries as to how the unique patterns on the ancient Damascus blades were formed. Using a modern metallurgical computational software package, the relevant ...

Recent excavations in Jerusalem’s Musrara neighborhood revealed four Armenian inscriptions dating from the sixth to seventh centuries CE, providing what scholar Michael E. Stone calls ...