The end of more than a decade of civil war in Syria and the fall of the regime of former president Bashar Al Assad have given archaeologists around the world renewed hope that the country’s cultural ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A video posted online Saturday purportedly shows Islamic State fighters killing some 25 Syrian government soldiers in the historic town of Palmyra in central Syria. The video showed the ...

The quick-thinking citizen immediately summoned preservation experts. A man taking a stroll through the ancient city of Manbij, Syria, discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman funerary monument, or “stele,” ...

Syria’s best-known mosaic museum in the northern rebel-held town of Maaret al-Numan has been seriously damaged in a regime barrel bomb attack, according to archaeological experts. The Association for ...

MANBIJ, SYRIA—Greek City Times reports that a resident of Manbij, Syria, notified local authorities of the presence of a large inscribed stone buried near a central city market. An archaeological team ...

HAMA, SYRIA—Bronze Age potters working in the city of Hama in current-day Syria appear to have sold more than just cups, bowels, and dishes 4,500 years ago—they apparently also sold children’s toys.

Caption: The badly damaged outer gate of Aleppo's Citadel after government opponents try to blast their way into the ancient fortress. Aleppo, Syria. Credit: Nelofer PaziraNelofer Pazira Abu Khaled ...

Khaberni - Syrian security forces imposed a tight security cordon around a construction site in the town of 'Sheikh Miskeen' ...

PALMYRA, Syria—Abdurahman Abu Hamza, a farmer from the Syrian city of Deir Ezzour, last visited the ancient ruins of Palmyra on a school trip as a child. Last week, he strolled with friends past the ...

A desert oasis surrounded by palm trees in central Syria, Palmyra is also a strategic crossroads linking the Syrian capital Damascus with the country’s east and neighboring Iraq. Home to 65,000 people ...