DAMASCUS (Reuters) - In the National Museum of Damascus, archaeologist Muntajab Youssef works on an ancient stone bust from Palmyra, one of hundreds of artifacts his team is painstakingly restoring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roman artifacts from the ancient city of Palmyra are pictured during a handover ceremony hosted by Lebanon's National Museum in ...

PALMYRA, Syria (AP) — Experts are returning to Syria’s war-ravaged heritage sites, hoping to lay the groundwork for restoring them and reviving tourism, which they say could provide a much-needed ...

The goal was to determine whether the arch of Palmyra could be rebuilt on the existing foundation, whether it required reinforcement, or needed to be reconstructed entirely, and it turned out that the ...

DAMASCUS, Syria – The recapture of Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra from the Islamic State group has brought new revelations of the destruction wreaked by the extremists, who decapitated priceless ...

Islamic State militants have not yet damaged the ruins in the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, according to the country’s antiquities chief. Maamoun Abdulkarim said there was “no damage so far,” ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Islamic State fighters broke into the museum of Palmyra, though a Syrian official said its artifacts have been removed and are safe while the U.S.-led coalition conducted airstrikes ...

The theft follows major heists at the Louvre and the Oakland Museum of Art. Visitors walk in front of the Lion of al-Lat, an ancient statue from the temple of the same name in Palmyra, during their ...

DAMASCUS, Syria -- The recapture of Syria's ancient city of Palmyra from the Islamic State group has brought new revelations of the destruction wreaked by the extremists, who decapitated priceless ...