Believed to be more than 1,500 years old from the Byzantine Empire, the ruins were found in Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province, located on the route between the cities of Aleppo and Damascus.

Scientists have unveiled inscriptions which several hundred years old in the location where Jesus Christ ate with his ...

After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an ...

The discovery occurred in Maarat al-Numan, a town of strategic importance between Aleppo and Damascus ... containing 800 archaeological sites in addition to an ancient city”, Mr al-Ismail said. The ...

An Ancient Christian tomb complex dating back 1,500 years was discovered by a contractor who was clearing rubble beneath a destroyed house in Syria's Idlib province.

The discovery occurred in Maarat al-Numan, a town of strategic importance between Aleppo and Damascus ... containing 800 archaeological sites in addition to an ancient city”, Mr al-Ismail said. The ...

For centuries, the hakawati, an Arabic word meaning "storyteller," played an important role in Syria. In cafes, these men would sit in raised chairs and narrate wild tales to the crowds that gathered ...

Since 2008, 1.3 million seed varieties from 128 countries have been deposited in the global seed vault, located in Norway's ...

It was just another bombing in a complicated corner of the Middle East, but this one was important — the Associated Press ...

The sound of birds stirring from their rest seeps into my slumber, despite ear plugs. I console myself that there are worse ...

When war strikes, architecture—buildings, homes, and cultural landmarks—falls first before human lives become the grim focus. This relentless destruction tears societies apart, turning ...