Palmyra is one of the most famous sites in Syria for its extraordinary heritage and archaeological remains. Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1980, the city saw much of its heritage destroyed ...

History was made in February 2019 when Pope Francis, the figurehead for the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, became the first pontiff to visit and perform Mass in the Arabian Peninsula. His ...

Whether through agricultural practices, deforestation, or urbanization, how modern humans use land has had an unprecedented ...

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...