The National Museum in Damascus is one of the most significant cultural institutions in the Middle East. Its extensive ...

Metallurgists have puzzled for several centuries as to how the unique patterns on the ancient Damascus blades were formed. Using a modern metallurgical computational software package, the relevant ...

The National Library of Damascus is one of Syria's most significant cultural institutions, housing a vast collection of ...

"The problem with America," says Amr, digging into a gelato, "is that everyone thinks Syria and Iran are like Trinidad and Tobago." We're sharing a park bench in a busy, modern part of Damascus. It's ...

A recent fire that devastated a neighbourhood of the Ancient City of Damascus raised the alarm about the need to protect the old city, inscribed on the World Heritage list, from future catastrophes ...

From the outside, the Syrian war may appear to consume every corner of the country. But inside an ancient Damascus bazaar, the war can feel very far away. The covered Hamidiyeh bazaar has always been ...

Founded in the 3rd millennium B.C., Damascus is one of the oldest cities in the Middle East. In the Middle Ages, it was the centre of a flourishing craft industry, specializing in swords and lace. The ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Pilgrim buses clog a road just outside the Old City of Damascus. Partly to solve that nuisance, municipal planners want to carve a highway through a historic but neglected quarter ...

DAMASCUS — Six ancient statues have been stolen from the National Museum of Damascus, which is one of the Middle East's oldest cultural institutions and houses a collection showing Syria's ...

News reports suggest the United States will respond to last week's chemical weapons' attacks in Syria with targeted military strikes. But despite the looming U.S. involvement and the growing crisis in ...

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