A contractor in Syria discovered an ancient underground Byzantine tomb complex believed to be 1,500 years old below a ...

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.

Since the fall of the Assad regime, "widespread poverty" and the "collapse" of the nation's "once-feared security apparatus" have sparked a "gold rush" of looters, robbing 2000-year-old graves for ...

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

A 1,500-year-old Byzantine tomb was discovered in Syria’s Idlib province during reconstruction, offering a glimpse into the ...

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A contractor found an underground Byzantine tomb believed to be more than 1,500 years old beneath the rubble of a war-damaged house in northern Syria. Since the fall of former Syrian president ...

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.