The desert that we see today in Arabia was once a region that repeatedly underwent "green" periods in the past, as a result ...

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green ...

Unfortunately for the Romans, however, these tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems.

Ammonius Saccas was a Greek philosopher that revived Platonism and shaped metaphysical thought and spiritual philosophy in ...

Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

While on a hike with her family, a child stumbled across a 3,800-year-old Egyptian amulet. It will go on display in an ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

Fitr, the joyous celebrations of Damascene families have returned to their former glory, bringing with them the esse ...

Pope John Paul II has become the first Pontiff to enter a mosque during his groundbreaking pilgrimage to Syria. The country's top Muslim clerics are escorting the Pope through Damascus' Omayyad Mosque ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... Newroz, the Farsi-language word for “new year,” ...

Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock officially reopened her country's embassy in war-ravaged Syria during a one-day visit to Damascus on Thursday. Baerbock reopened the mission ...