ALEPPO, Syria, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- Abdul Qader al-Qusaib, who owns a roastery in Aleppo's Old City, remembers a time when the ...

A 176-year-old queen sago palm, a member of a plant lineage older than the dinosaurs, is in full leaf at Lawrence Garden, a ...

Changes were not limited to the texts; images and illustrations were also edited in Photoshop, adding hijabs or long robes to female figures, deleting women's photos, and covering or replacing statues ...

Mona Lisa scrubbed from Syrian textbooks as critics slam conservative drift ...

An exhibition at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World reveals the way magic was intertwined with life in ways ...

Syria’s education ministry has defended controversial textbook revisions that cover up female figures, remove historical art ...

This Halloween, trick-or-treaters the world over will don pointy black hats and drag along a broom as they trawl the ...

An exhibition highlighting the lives of Syrian workers who helped excavate the ancient city of Dura-Europos has opened at the ...

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Saint Jerome Writing, a painting by Caravaggio, dated to 1605–06. Public domain. / null By Jonah McKeown St. Louis, Mo., Sep ...

Fragments of blue Syrian pottery have been discovered during archaeological excavations at a site in a Russian city, shedding ...