These monuments are the contributions of civilizations from ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cultures. Who chose ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location ... This little-understood Middle Eastern culture ruled much of modern-day Jordan from the third ...

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During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments reduced ... central to many ancient Middle Eastern civilizations.

Palmyra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site — inhabited for thousands of years before it became a thriving Roman city on the crossroads between East ... the ancient city's most important monuments.

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide — but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study 1 of hundreds of ancient human genomes.