The Damascus Document — so-named from its numerous references to the city in Syria, possibly because Damascus was once ruled by Israel's King David — was copied from an earlier Hebrew source ...

From Mecca, he continued his travels through Baghdad, Konya, and Anatolia, before finally settling in Damascus in 1223 CE. The tomb and mausoleum of Ibn Arabi was constructed after the Ottoman ...

“Watered pattern on sword blade1” by Rahil Alipour Ata Abadi The phrase “Damascus steel” comes to us from medieval-period swords manufactured in the Middle East, and known at least to ...

historians and scientists remained skeptical that Slav craftsmen had such refined metalworking skills in the early medieval era. In the late 19 th century, a sword made of Damascus steel was found ...

(Jerusalem and Damascus were thorns in each other’s sides, constantly at war throughout the medieval era.) The Christian Crusader states weren’t the only arenas in which women were beginning ...

At its most basic level, Damascus steel is a unique form of steel that features alternating light and dark grains within the material and a high carbon content. In ancient and medieval times ...

DAMASCUS, Syria—The people of Syria said good riddance in the past month to the dictatorship that ruled for half a century. They have no idea what is coming next. So when the clock struck ...

AP — A quarter century after Israeli spies, a Canadian activist and a Syrian rabbi smuggled nine rare medieval Jewish manuscripts out of Damascus, an Israeli court decided the books will remain ...

European Jewish communities had witnessed significant progress toward emancipation—would medieval superstitions now reverse these gains? What distinguished the Damascus Affair from previous ...

Defence forces "shot down several missiles", it added. Historic buildings near the medieval Damascus citadel were also "severely damaged", said the head of the Syrian antiquities department ...