A new study argues that ancient rattles unearthed in Syria aren’t musical instruments, but toys used to entertain infants.

Bronze Age potters working in the city of Hama in current-day Syria appear to have sold more than just cups, bowels, and ...

SYRIA WAS once a thriving hub of diverse merchant cities. During the Islamic Golden Age (from the eighth to ... foreign powers. Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became a country and ...

complete with maps of the size and layout of sites, even down to the locations of people’s homes within them,” Molloy said. “This really gives an unprecedented view of how these Bronze Age ...

The large town, which was home to up to 500 residents, was built around 2,400 BC during the early Bronze Age, the researchers ... Sea from present-day Syria to Jordan. Northwest Arabia at the ...

This site was one of the ancient cities of the Middle East and is considered one of the first medium-sized urban centers that emerged in western Syria ... to the Early Bronze Age.

Cemal Pulak, a nautical archaeologist at Texas A&M University who was not involved in the find, said, “I consider any Bronze Age shipwreck ... conducted west out of Syria and Canaan to southern ...