The ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Syria’s central Homs province, stands as a haunting reminder of ...

Palmyra, one of Syria’s six UNESCO World Heritage sites, once thrived as a key hub on the ancient Silk Road, linking the Roman and Parthian empires to Asia. Situated in the Syrian desert ...

Syria was then a Roman province, and this context shaped her later political life. Historical sources refer to Zenobia as one ...

One of Syria’s six UNESCO World Heritage sites, Palmyra was once a key hub to the ancient Silk Road network linking the Roman and Parthian empires to Asia. Located in the Syrian desert ...

Pope John Paul II has become the first Pontiff to enter a mosque during his groundbreaking pilgrimage to Syria. The country's top Muslim clerics are escorting the Pope through Damascus' Omayyad Mosque ...

The identification of the fort of Tabus is not certain, but the site of Alalis in the Ptolemy’s Geography has been suggested. The architecture and associated finds point to the latest rebuilding and ...

Columbia University on Thursday said it had doled out a range of punishments to students who occupied a campus building last spring during pro-Palestinian protests.

The first Finnish archaeological project in Syria was started in cooperation with the Syrian Antiquities Department in summer 2000. Following in the footsteps of Father A. Poidebard in the Syrian ...