Nov 21, 2024 by News Staff

Dated to around 2400 BCE, the writing precedes other known alphabetic scripts by roughly 500 years, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Professor...

Oct 30, 2023 by News Staff

During a pioneering aerial survey of the Near East in the 1920s, the Jesuit French priest Father Antoine Poidebard recorded 116 fortified military buildings...

Oct 16, 2023 by News Staff

Around 12,800 years ago, Earth collided with fragments of a disintegrating comet, triggering Younger Dryas climate change; this event created environmental...

Jul 2, 2020 by News Staff

Fragments of an exploding short-period comet may have caused destruction of the Paleolithic settlement at Abu Hureyra in northern Syria about 12,800 years...

Oct 24, 2017 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, ancient peoples began to systemically affect the evolution...

Dec 2, 2016 by News Staff

Bitumen — a rare, tar-like material — from the Middle East is present in the 7th century Anglo-Saxon ship-burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, UK,...

Jul 9, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Archaeologist Dr Robert Mason of the Royal Ontario Museum has recently announced the discovery of mysterious rock formations near the Syrian monastery...

Jun 22, 2012 by News Staff

A Norwegian-Syrian team of archaeologists has solved one of the great puzzles of the Roman Empire: why was the vibrant city of Palmyra located in the middle...

Jan 16, 2012 by News Staff

Syrian archaeologists have announced new discoveries found at an archaeological site near the coastal town of Jableh in Lattakia governorate, Syria. According...

Jan 8, 2012 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists has announced new discoveries unearthed at the archaeological site of the ancient city of Bosra, southern Syria. Roman bathhouses...

Dec 23, 2011 by James Freeman

Syrian archaeologists have unearthed an early Christian church and a cemetery at the site of Tal Hasaka, northeastern Syria, according to the Syrian Arab...