A California man was sentenced to prison for illegally importing a 2,000-pound Syrian mosaic of the Roman demigod Hercules, a historic work of art dating back to the Roman Empire, federal ...

SIR ARTHUR EVANS, commenting on the results of Sir Leonard Woolley's recent archaeological investigations in Syria (see NATURE ... painting of Cretan Palace art. In concluding with an analysis ...

A California man was sentenced to three months in federal prison today for illegally importing a 2,000-pound ancient floor mosaic from Syria to the ... The FBI's Art Crime Team and Homeland ...

Ramses the Great is credited with expanding Egypt's reach as far as modern Syria to the east and Sudan to the south.

His legal counsel had argued that the floor mosaic was not an authentic piece of art from ancient Rome and had an expert ...

Yale’s Holly Rushmeier is using AI to “reconstruct” an ancient city in present-day Syria and to predict how forest fires will ...

The church was built in the city of Dura-Europos, near the village of Salihiyah in modern-day Syria. The church was built somewhere between 233 and 256 AD, according to Christianity.com In the ...

An ancient building in modern-day Syria has long been considered an example of what is known as a domestic “house church.” But a new study challenges this idea. Since its discovery by modern ...

The earthquake that struck northeastern Syria and neighboring Turkey, on February 6, 2023, only added to the sad state of affairs. The martyred city, once an ancient and prosperous center at the ...

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His legal counsel had argued that the floor mosaic was not an authentic piece of art from ancient Rome and had an ... destruction of cultural heritage in Syria, particularly by the terrorist ...