What can an extraordinary group of sculptures commemorating the dead reveal about ancient life in Palmyra? Thousands of ancient inhabitants’ portraits once…
Before September, the people in this picture had never picked up a chisel. Now, only a few months into World Monument Fund’s…
As the conflict in Syria escalates, Emma Cunliffe reports for CWA on the damage being done to the country’s heritage.…
Civil unrest, violent clashes, an oppressive authority: we could be talking about Syria today. But this is 6,000 years ago, during the…
Archaeologists in Syria have been forced to pull out of the country because of civil unrest, with protesters opposing the government of…
A new exhibition in New York reveals the secrets of another strikingly cosmopolitan city, one with a long and turbulent past.…
Romans versus Persians - a gruesome story of gas warfare at the ancient siege site of Dura-Europos…
Aga Khan to restore Syria's medieval castles…
Archaeologists investigate the mysterious death of an acrobat who met his end around 2300 BC…
How did the city of Sweyhat thrive in the Mesopotamian outback?…
The site of Jerablus Tahtani, which rises up in the Uruk period, becomes strongly fortified in the Early Bronze Age, but is…
Peter Pfalzner, of the University of Tubingen writes of the extraordinary Brinze Age royal tombs at Qanta…