"Out beyond ideas of conquest and colonization lies a legacy of knowledge that shaped the world." — Inspired by Rumi India, a ...

Another arc near the edge of the disc may have represented a boat — maybe a "sun boat" like the "solar barque" in the ancient Egyptian religion — or a sickle, which may indicate that the disc ...

Whether unconventional leaders have been good or bad for their countries is debatable, but they definitely change the course ...

Syrian fighters rest in the ancient city of Palmyra ... the last coachload of tourists trundled through the desert from Damascus, 150 miles to the southwest, Palmyra has been a place of ...

With Assad and his Russian backers gone, people of Palmyra fear the return of terrorists who forced them to watch beheadings Bathed in the glow of the winter sun, the colonnades of ancient Palmyra ...

The instant collapse of Assad’s rule will reshape the geopolitics of the Mideast for years to come. Within Syria itself, the challenge is how to replace the bloodthirsty past and current revolutionary ...

This was the “Damascus Spring" of 2000, a brief period following Hafez ... Had Bashar al-Assad not disbanded the pen, he could have perhaps avoided resorting to the sword as a last argument. His heavy ...

It was found in a cemetery for high-social-status individuals that's being kept secret from the public due to the value.

The lead archaeologist at the grave site told Newsweek that the sword was an "elite object that marked its owner out as special." ...

Dating to the fifth and sixth centuries C.E., the burials held a trove of grave goods—but the team was particularly impressed ...

A sixth-century sword described as "astonishing" has been discovered at an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in rural England. Lead archaeologist Duncan Sayer of the University of Central Lancashire ...