Xinjiang has always intrigued me as a place where cultures meet and histories converge, said Waref Kumayha, president of the ...

After surviving years of war in Syria and becoming refugees in Lebanon, two sisters are celebrating their first Christmas ...

Part of a Crusader castle crumbled. An 18th century minaret felled. Church mosaics burned. Archaeologists are assessing ...

The ancient figure, known locally as al-Habeeb ... Others run businesses in Beirut and have opened branches in Mays al-Jabal, breathing life into the village’s economy. Also in the Marjayoun ...

An anti-Hezbollah Lebanese newspaper reported that the terror group helped hundreds of Syrian intelligence officers flee to Lebanon in the days before forces opposed ...

The collection of 47 photographs contains views of the city of Beirut, Lebanon and the ruins of the ancient city of Palmyra and the town of Al-Rastan in Syria, taken by Louis Vignes in 1864 when he ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Egyptian temple hidden in a cliff face. The temple dates to around 2,100 years ago and was discovered at the site of Athribis, located about 125 miles (200 ...

A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – cousins of the Denisovans and Neanderthals – that once lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100 ...

In Beirut's southern suburbs, the cost of "victory" is devastation. Destroyed and damaged buildings are everywhere. Some of the ruins still smoulder and the air is filled with dust that makes the ...

For nearly 300 years, a family’s ancestral house in India's southern state of Kerala has been the stage for theyyam, an ancient folk ritual. Rooted in ancient tribal traditions, theyyam predates ...

Beirut, Lebanon - December 01, 2024 Supporters of Hezbollah convened in the southern suburbs of Beirut, at the site symbolically tied to the reported assassination of the group's Secretary General ...

Like tens of thousands of Lebanon’s displaced, Hussein Mallah headed to the southern suburbs of Beirut at the break of dawn on Wednesday. The truce between Hezbollah and Israel had just begun ...