If the Aleppo room was still in Aleppo, and not a museum in Berlin, it might well have been destroyed, burned in the indulgence of fire which consumed much of the old city two years ago when even ...

Curators at the Aleppo National Museum are struggling to protect Syria's ancient heritage from the civil war's destruction that has left the historic walled city in ruins.

For nearly 1,000 years the minaret of the Great Mosque of Aleppo soared above Syria's largest city. But it now lies in ruins - one of the many victims of Syria's civil war.

In a 2015 video from the Holocaust Museum, Holocaust survivor Margit Meissner lamented the actions of Assad’s regime, comparing it to the mass slaughter she lived through in the 1930s and '40s.

At The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., there is moving evidence of an earlier, more peaceful time in that now-beleaguered Syrian hub: photographs of 19th century women in gold-trimmed velvet ...

Syria war updates: Rebels take control of Aleppo, igniting new phase of war. These were the updates for Saturday, November 30, as Syrian government forces struck the opposition offensive in Aleppo.

The Story of the Codex. Secured in the lower level of the famed Shrine of the Book at Jerusalem’s Israel Museum sits the Aleppo Codex. Its story is thrilling and mysterious, mirroring the story ...

Aleppo’s old city, designated a Unesco World Heritage site, was ravaged by the years of conflict in Syria. ... Nearby, however, the National Museum of Aleppo is readying to reopen.

The cultural association Syrians for Heritage reported last December that the city of Aleppo, home to a Unesco World Heritage Site and the Aleppo Museum, was “preserved without any damage”.

Aleppo saw untold amounts of human and heritage devastation during a conflict that spanned the years 2012 to 2016. Our research, ... Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania. ...

Curators at the Aleppo National Museum are struggling to protect Syria's ancient heritage from the civil war's destruction that has left the historic walled city in ruins.