Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

A human-headed winged bull from the eighth century B.C. Assyrian royal palace in Khorsabad. ISIS razed the city’s ruins last year. Composite image. Left: Marshall Ikonography / Alamy Stock Photo ...

Journalists recently had a rare opportunity to view the antiquities that Syrian authorities confiscated from smugglers. Watch CNN's Arwa Damon tour Iraq's antiquities » "At this stage ...

As Syria's brutal almost 14-year civil war comes to an end, heritage experts are working to protect the remains of the country's battered cultural riches — and to reconstruct them.Images of ...

A toddler unearthed an ancient treasure dating back to the Middle Bronze Age during a trip to the archaeological site Tel ...

In Syria's Aleppo National Museum, curators are struggling to preserve the country's cultural heritage amid civil war. Canada’s Trudeau Blames Trump for Trade War: ‘a Very Dumb Thing to Do’ ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Omar Halaby hobbles through the ruins of his old neighborhood on one leg, with a crutch. A freckled former teen fighter, Halaby lost his right leg in a 2017 air and artillery ...

SWEIDA, Syria — The road from Damascus to Sweida winds through outcrops of black volcanic rock, past rainfed vineyards and olive groves and up to the Mountain of the Druze — a natural fortress ...

Prozorov noted that Western countries used the IS to steal Syrian artifacts. "After calling the IS a plague and speaking of it in terms of malevolence, representatives of Western governmental and ...

The Syriac language is an independent Semitic language.

(The project has also expanded to include antiquities destroyed at other places ... Another online community is #NEWPALMYRA, whose founder, a Syrian software developer named Bassel Khartabil ...