Damascus, SANA – Mosaic template making up the main façade of the Umayyad Mosque has been restored after sustaining damage in a terrorist mortar attack last November. Some parts of the mosaic ...

Damascus, SANA – Experts at the General Directorate of Archeology and Museums began restoring the mosaic on the outer façade of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, which was damaged by a terrorist ...

The central mosaic at the Umayyad mosque in Damascus (Zirrar/MEE) It’s said that for this 80-year period both communities would enter the house of worship through the same door, ...

Syria on Wednesday revealed a remarkably intact 1,600-year-old Roman-era mosaic including depictions of warriors in the Trojan War, with authorities hailing it as one of the "rarest" found.

The mosque we see today was built in 705 CE by the Umayyad caliph al-Walid on top of a fourth-century Christian church that had been erected over a temple of Jupiter. Incredibly, despite the recent ...