Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international correspondents share snapshots of moments from their ...

Since the fall of the Assad regime, "widespread poverty" and the "collapse" of the nation's "once-feared security apparatus" have sparked a "gold rush" of looters, robbing 2000-year-old graves for ...

Where the cella of the shrine of Baal Shamin once stood, only four columns now remain. And the remains of the Arch of Triumph, dating back to the era of Roman Emperor Severus in the third century, lie ...

Facebook Marketplace is typically used as a hub for thrifters to discover hidden gems that are now up for resale. But in ...

In the southeastern desert, heavy fighting continued between the army and its Iranian backed allies on one side and the ...

London: The collapse of a once-feared security apparatus, coupled with widespread poverty, has triggered a gold rush in Syria where experts say social media has emerged as a key hub for the sale of ...

The researchers who claimed to have found a vast underground city beneath Egypt’s Great Pyramids doubled down on the wild ...

Starting in 2021, a research team led by Musallam R. al-Rawahneh—an associate professor of archeology and ancient Near East ...

Based on the presence of the cross and the pottery and glass pieces that were found, this tomb dates back to the Byzantine ...

A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an underground Byzantine tomb complex ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,700-year-old marble sarcophagus depicting Greek gods Hercules and Dionysus in a drinking ...

The sanctuary fell out of use, its roof eventually collapsed, and the ancient building over time joined the city’s vast underground realm. For Uziel the church is more than cool. It’s also the ...