A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing for over 1,000 years. Etched on ...

Rail travel once linked Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, until war and air traffic shut it down. Now, major reconstruction plans aim to revive it over the next 15 years ...

"What is happening in Aleppo is terrible, and one should not worry excessively about whether to classify the atrocities as genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity," Naimark said in an email.

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

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 ...

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

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

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 ...

Much of what we know about the city’s early flourishing comes from a remarkable collection of more than 23,000 clay Assyrian tablets discovered at the Turkish site of Karum Kanesh, 600 miles away.

Heidelberg excavation work in ancient Nineveh. Credit: Schmitt Historical significance of Nineveh The ancient city of Nineveh, located near the modern Iraqi city of Mosul, is considered one of the ...

Heidelberg excavation work in ancient Nineveh. A team from Heidelberg University working in Iraq made a remarkable discovery. In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal, located in ...

Cellar preserved at a depth of 2.20m in the ancient Roman-era city, France. Credit: Hamid Azmoun / Inrap Archaeologists have uncovered new evidence of life in the Roman-era city of Metlosedum – ...