The first time I came to Brussels was in 1970, when I was 20 years old. I was en route to Antwerp to learn about the diamond ...

In the early 2000s, archaeologists excavating a tomb at Tell Umm-el Marra, a site 35 miles east of Aleppo, Syria, discovered ...

Mountains are the meeting places between mortals and gods; we ascend, and they descend. Mountains, unlike meadows and rivers, ...

Beshr Tabakh, 26, originally from Syria, said: "I am broke and at one point did not eat for two days. I am unemployed and ...

Found etched into clay cylinders in Syria, the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

The early human discovery dating back to 2400 BC was made by analyzing clay fragments at a 16-year-long archaeological dig in ...

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched ...

Syria state media reports Israeli attacks killed 36 people in Palmyra. At least nine people were killed by Israel in the ...

The physical warfare witnessed today is predicated upon entrenched fault lines, as the foundational divergence between ...

The oldest known alphabetic writing has been found etched onto finger-length clay cylinders unearthed from a tomb in Syria.

The United States vetoed a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, with the ...