Sparta was one of the most powerful city-states in antiquity. The ancient capital of the Laconia district of the southeastern ...

Thousands of Syria’s Jews left in recent decades. But after Assad’s ouster and easing of sanctions, they can now reconnect ...

The inscriptions, which were recently published in Liber Annuus, are composed of 30 inscriptions and nine drawings on the ...

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 ...

After 14 years of civil war in Syria, and a devastating earthquake, mountains of rubble clog the streets of Aleppo, hindering ...

"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.