Syria’s status as a classic Middle East tourist definition was shredded by civil war. Visitors are now beginning to return, ...

With the Arabs essentially taken out of this great game, it now comes down to an ancient animus: the Turkish Sunni Muslims versus the Persian Shiite Muslims for control over this region.

BCE, two titans of the Hellenistic world clashed in one of the ancient world’s largest battles to decide the fate of Coele-Syria (modern Syria and Lebanon). The Battle of Raphia saw the Seleucid king ...

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.

"It is tempting to see this moment as a crisis—perhaps even an unraveling. But history tells a different story." ...

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

Climate change, invasions, and economic decline contributed to the collapse of Mediterranean Bronze Age civilizations.

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location ... into the thriving capital of the Nabataean kingdom. This little-understood Middle Eastern ...

In an ancient city in Syria, excavations made nearly a century ago are now revealing new details, researchers said. Joe Planas via Unsplash Nearly a century ago, Danish archaeologists traveled to ...

In an ancient city in Syria, excavations made nearly a century ago are now revealing new details, researchers said. Joe ...