The faithful gathered for a more than symbolic rite at St. Elias Orthodox Church in Damascus -- the Feast of All Antiochian Saints.

From the pyramids of Egypt to the jungle-choked ruins of Angkor Wat, from the magical desert capital of the Nabateans in ...

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Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast ...

A church bombing in Damascus killed worshippers during a feast day. The Antiochian Church honors them as new martyrs, echoing ...

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

Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country and alongside Mesopotamia was a part of the Fertile Crescent which is ...

A cemetery near Damascus was transformed into an industrial-scale mass grave for Syrians who opposed President Bashar ...

Syria blamed the Islamic State group — entered with a rifle and began firing. As worshippers tackled him, he detonated an ...

Scientists have unveiled inscriptions which several hundred years old in the location where Jesus Christ ate with his ...

A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing for over 1,000 years. Etched on ...

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 ...