In Syria's western desert, Maree Al Shehab had given up hope of seeing his home city of Palmyra again, still less showing his ...

BERLIN - A high-ranking member of the Islamic State militant group in Syria has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Germany, partly for alleged involvement in the genocide ...

Dr Daniel McClellan, an honorary fellow at the University of Birmingham has finally revealed the back story of Jesus' supposed 'middle name'.

Archaeologists are painstakingly putting together artefacts at Nimrud shattered by Islamic State jihadists, undaunted by the ...

A new analysis of the 6,000-year-old stone circle known as Rujm el-Hiri (also Gilgal Refaim) in Golan Heights suggests that ...

Will unpalatable and uncomfortable truths continue to be swept under the carpet this year? The irresistible urge to avoid ...

The emerging importance of the find underscores a key truth about archaeology: artifacts often hold secrets that only later ...

Archaeologists are restoring ancient treasures in Nimrud, an Assyrian city in Iraq, nearly a decade after its destruction by ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

Attempts to discredit the new Syrian administration have caused a surge in online disinformation, open source investigators ...

A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, archaeologists have been painstakingly putting together its ancient treasures, shattered into ...