“Palmyra revitalised the steppe and used to be a global tourist magnet,” Ayman Nabu, a researcher and expert in ancient ruins told The Associated Press, explaining that the site was known as ...

PALMYRA, Syria — Experts are returning to Syria’s war-ravaged heritage sites, hoping to lay the groundwork for restoring them and reviving tourism, which they say could provide a much-needed ...

MOSCOW has sensationally raised its suspicions that Washington colluded with Isis to recapture the Syrian city of Palmyra, as reinforcements poured in yesterday to stem their advance. Tadmur — the ...

I’d already done my mourning for Palmyra – an oasis of palms ... I’d seen both in 2010 before the ancient ruins were reduced ...

They already formed, on the periphery of ancient empires ... as evidenced by the ruins of their capital, Petra. In 106 CE, under Emperor Trajan, Rome annexed this hybrid state, turning it into ...

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Ruins of Great Zimbabwe ... Transcontinental traffic in the ancient world made it possible for Chinese silk to arrive in Roman Palmyra (in modern Syria). But would it make sense to explain this ...

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical ...

Over 2,000 years later and Cleopatra's Pools at the site of ancient Hierapolis is still popular with visitors who wish to ...

The ancient city of Teos sits on the western coast of Türkiye, directly across the Aegean Sea from Athens. Today, it is ...