The church was built in the city of Dura-Europos, near the village of Salihiyah in modern-day Syria. The church was ... Today, the church is left in ruins in an area controlled by ISIS, according ...

Piecemeal reconstruction, economic and social decay, millions of internally displaced persons. For people in Aleppo, Homs, ...

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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 of July 4, p. 20 and August 8, p. 235), pronounces the Minoan impact ...

Located in northeast from Amman, Umm Al-Jimal ruins -- built using black basalt blocks supported with similar rectangular ...

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Dura-Europos Church in modern-day Syria is widely considered to be the oldest house church in the world. Today, the ancient ...