For collectors, historians, and artisans, Exquisite Knives serves as a testament to the enduring allure of handcrafted blades ...

All of its crew perished, including Israel’s first astronaut, Ilan Ramon. A former combat pilot in the Israeli Air Force, he ...

Nearly a century ago, Danish archaeologists traveled to the site of the ancient city of Hama, a region that was occupied for close to 8,000 years. Hama, now in modern-day Syria, was first occupied ...

Youstina Khoury, a Christian nun kidnapped by an earlier iteration of the group now running Syria, has forgiven the former ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location ... Burckhardt left Damascus on June 18, 1812. Heading south through what is now Jordan, he ...

Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year is observed by more than 1 and half billion people, so yeah it's kind of a big deal. KID 2 ...

Above, a 14th-century pharmaceutical container made in Damascus. Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient ...

To applause, percussionist Bahjat Antaki took the stage with Syria's national symphony orchestra, marking the first classical ...

The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of ...

Gaza has long been a powder keg. It exploded after Hamas fighters stormed southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and began killing ...

A new map of climate conditions during the Pliocene epoch—the last time Earth’s carbon dioxide concentrations hit 400 parts ...

Archaeologists in Egypt are working to restore the Ramesseum, a temple belonging to Ramesses II, an Old Testament pharaoh believed to have interacted with Moses in the Book of Exodus.