‘Everything is better than before’: How Syria is reopening to tourists
Syria’s status as a classic Middle East tourist definition was shredded by civil war. Visitors are now beginning to return, ...
S A N A1d
Aleppo…the Syrian city is one of the oldest inhabited cities in history
Aleppo, SANA- Aleppo province is located in northern Syria and is adjacent to the southern borders of Turkey and it is and ...
The American Conservative4d
Mara’s Message From History
Small entities might once again need to relearn how to hedge between great powers. One forgotten highborn woman from history provides some ancient realist lessons.
In One Devastated Syrian Suburb, the Only Sign of Life Is the Gravedigger
The regime contested them with full force, raining down barrel bombs and even chemical weapons in fighting from 2013 until a ...
Meet the soldiers hunting down Assad regime leaders who terrorised Syria
By the standards of other cities I have been in or visited shortly after a revolution, Damascus seems on the face of it ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs21d
The last Jews of Damascus: A journey through memory and ruins
It seemed an ideal time. The Jewish Quarter of Damascus is located in the old city. There were 50,000 Jews in Syria at the beginning of the 20th century – an ancient and historic community ...
La Brújula Verde18h
Wootz, the Steel from Southern India That Was the Origin of the Famous Damascus Steel
Fans of the literary saga A Song of Ice and Fire (or its television adaptation, Game of Thrones) will remember that “Valyrian ...
The Art Newspaper15d
After the collapse of the Assad regime, Syrians are working to preserve their country's heritage
(In 2013 Unesco placed all six of Syria’s World Heritage Sites—the Ancient City of Damascus, the Site of ... for the first time in years, the stonemasons could imagine working in their own ...
The New Yorker18d
A Witness in Assad’s Dungeons
A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...
Why there’s a huge collection of vintage cars stored in the middle of the desert
A vast and eccentric collection of everything from vintage Rolls-Royces to an entire house relocated from Syria, the Sheikh ...
The Charlotte Observer on MSN15d
Ancient amber beads found in Syria kept in museum for decades. They were ‘invaluable’
The beads were identified as amber, something that was not common in Syria during the Iron Age and originated from the Baltic ...
ZME Science on MSN9d
Ancient Roman Papyrus Details Stunning Forgery Case in Exquisite Detail
The world of the Roman Empire was not just one of legions, emperors, and conquests — it was also a world of legal disputes, ...