Cardinal Gugerotti’s six-day visit, from Jan. 24–29, marks the first time a Vatican envoy has traveled to Syria since the ...

BCE, two titans of the Hellenistic world clashed in one of the ancient world’s largest battles to decide the fate of ...

From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...

It was just a minor skirmish, hardly worth a mention. In a small village in one of the Seleucid (Syrian-Greek) Empire’s more remote provinces, a local priest refused to obey the local ...

The fact that Turkey is playing a long game in Syria does not mean that it has abandoned its confrontational stance in the Aegean either. Last month a former Turkish defense minister, Hulusi Akar, ...

Until recently the most that people tended to know about cold and sparsely populated Greenland is that it is not small and ...

Vacationing families will visit the waterfalls of the Hermon Stream in the Golan Heights from which the Syrian Greek armies had ... While Antiochus, his empire and his gods are long gone, menorahs ...

The ancient Greek ideal of World Unity is manifested in the conquests of Alexander the Great aiming to unite the world through Hellenization.

Throughout its history, Syria has been a hub of Mediterranean civilizations. The Neo-Hittite Empire spoke Indo-European languages, and the Phoenicians prioritized connections with Cyprus, Greece, and ...

New research on the longest Greek papyrus from the Judean Desert ever discovered offers unprecedented insights into life in ...

In the Biblical site of Abel Beth Maacah in northern Israel, archaeologists have discovered ancient Roman tablets revealing ...

In the Ottoman era, “Turk” essentially meant “Muslim.” A Catholic Albanian, a Greek Orthodox, or a Jew who converted to Islam ...