MARAAT AL-NUMAN, Syria — A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an underground ...
In Part 3 of the Arab-Byzantine Wars series, we explore how Muslim forces led by Amr ibn al-As conquered Egypt from the Byzantine Empire in a remarkably swift and strategic campaign. This video breaks ...
Near the base of a column atop which Saint Simeon Stylites once perched, scattered stones lay bare the damage inflicted on ...