In the Biblical site of Abel Beth Maacah in northern Israel, archaeologists have discovered ancient Roman tablets revealing long-lost places.

Scientists have deciphered a Roman boundary stone inscribed with Greek text which was recently discovered in northern Israel, ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

Scientists identified unique engravings that could be the oldest 3D map in the world during an investigation of the Ségognole 3 cave south of Paris, France. The research, published in the Oxford ...

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Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research co-led by a UCL and Francis ...

His part in the notorious February 1982 massacre in the western city of Hama, in which between 10,000 and 40,000 people were killed, earned him the nickname "the Butcher of Hama". Rifaat al-Assad ...

Rifaat Assad, the brother of Bashar Assad's father Hafez Assad, Syria's former ruler, led the artillery unit that shelled the city of Hama and killed thousands, earning him the nickname the “Butcher ...

Hours before the service, hundreds of protesters in Damascus had gathered to denounce an incident in which a Christmas tree was burned in the northern countryside of Hama governorate in western ...

Last week, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Hama in west-central Syria was targeted in an attack, with gunfire damaging its façade and crosses on nearby graves vandalised and removed. Originally ...

One of the first tasks at hand: freeing those who were forcibly disappeared and detained in prisons and security facilities in cities including Aleppo, Homs, Hama and Damascus, enduring years of ...