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

reader comments A massive wave of coordinated pager explosions across Lebanon and Syria around 3:30 pm local time today has killed at least eight people and injured more than 2,700, according to local ...

THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has finally been solved. The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of ...

The secrets held within the Babylonian tablet, considered the world's oldest map, have been deciphered. Dated from 2600 to ...

Archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam discovered the Babylonian tablet in 1882. For over a hundred years, it remained undeciphered.

The region encompasses a swathe of land crossing the countries between the easternmost Mediterranean Sea and the Sinai, Arab, ...

The Seleucid Empire was one of the successor states that emerged after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC.

New evidence supports the idea that a comet’s airburst caused the Younger Dryas climate shift and mass extinctions 12,800 years ago. The materials found suggest lower-pressure impacts, not ...

the capitals) by location on a map: see the long list of Online ... except when parts are ruled by various Herods Damascus - ancient center of Syria; site of conversion of Saul/Paul (Gal 1:17 ...

Taking over Palestinian historical sites and turning them into Israeli tourist attractions is just another way the occupation ...

Twelve Syrian soldiers were killed on Wednesday, September 4, by an Al-Qaeda linked group in northwest Syria, according to a war monitoring organization, the highest such death toll in the region ...