At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched letters ...

The regime in Damascus has lost control of Syria’s skies and its borders. Its foreign backers, Russia, Iran and its Shia ...

In a remarkable archaeological breakthrough, researchers from Johns Hopkins University have uncovered what appears to be the ...

In Tell Umm-el Marra, a former city located in northwestern modern Syria that was once a busy crossroads of two trade routes ... But our artifacts are older and come from a different area on the map, ...

Syria's state-run media say that a strike on the Syrian town of Palmyra killed 36 people and wounded more than 50, an attack ...

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Social media footage shows huge smoke plumes rising after attack on Syria's historic city of Palmyra killed 36 people and ...

In Syria, archaeologists have discovered what may be the oldest evidence of alphabetic writing - abstract characters carved ...

Researchers have discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing was etched onto clay cylinders discovered during a dig at an ancient Syrian city.

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Researchers have found a 4,400-year-old alphabet in a tomb in the Middle Eastern nation of Syria that could help ...

The dig site contained many ancient tombs dating back to the Early Bronze Age from 3500-2000 BC, with one containing ...