Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast cultures with those in the Andes and Amazon, flourishing around the same ...

Syria blamed the Islamic State group — entered with a rifle and began firing. As worshippers tackled him, he detonated an ...

Are you as assured as Ashurbanipal about your knowledge of Mesopotamia, or as dim as Nimrud?

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

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 ...

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 ...

The story of Greeks in Alexandria goes back more than two millennia, when Alexander the Great established the city.