Damascus, Syria, holds the record as the world's oldest continuously inhabited city, surviving for over 11,000 years. Despite ...

A new study argues that ancient rattles unearthed in Syria aren’t musical instruments, but toys used to entertain infants.

In a moving ceremony at the National Library in Jerusalem, the public was granted a rare glimpse of the ancient “Damascus ...

A sprawling, centuries-old mosaic was recently unearthed in Syria, shedding light onto life under Roman rule. The ancient ...

Syria's revitalized ancient Mar Musa Monastery ... in the mountainous desert area north of the Syrian capital, Damascus. Dall'Oglio and others re-established the monastery in 1991 after earlier ...

These words were especially poignant during the March 9 rites at the Mariamite Cathedral of Damascus ... have been killed by Islamist militias in Syria. The Antiochian Orthodox Patriarch John ...

Honoring the late Rabbi Abraham Hamra, the chief rabbi of Syrian Jewry, the library unveiled several of the 12 fragile ...

In recent weeks, the new regime has committed to rehabilitating ancient Jewish sites and ... Joe Jajati, a Damascus native who left Syria with his parents as a toddler in 1996, said he had been ...

These words were especially poignant during the March 9 rites at the Mariamite Cathedral of Damascus ... had been killed by Islamist militias in Syria. The Antiochian Orthodox Patriarch John ...