Residents hope ancient tomb will revive tourism: 'In the old days, a lot of foreign tourists used to come to Maarat just to ...

An Ancient Christian tomb complex dating back 1,500 years was discovered by a contractor who was clearing rubble beneath a destroyed house in Syria's Idlib province.

Years of conflict saw not only destruction from aerial bombardments but also widespread looting and illicit excavations. Some ...

A contractor found a tomb complex dating back to the Byzantine Empire in Syria's Idlib province, just as many residents have ...

In northern Syria, a contractor discovered a Byzantine tomb complex over 1,500 years old during reconstruction. Located in ...

A construction worker has unearthed a 1,500-year-old Byzantine tomb complex in the war-torn province of Idlib, northern Syria ...

A contractor in northern Syria has uncovered an ancient Byzantine tomb complex believed to be over 1,500 years old during ...

A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled ...

A contractor was digging beneath the rubble of a destroyed house in the town of Maarat al-Numan in May when he made the ...

He noted that the discovery adds to an already rich collection of archeological sites in the area. Idlib "has a third of the monuments of Syria, containing 800 archaeological sites in addition to ...

Believed to be more than 1,500 years old from the Byzantine Empire, the ruins were found in Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province, located on the route between the cities of Aleppo and Damascus.