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‘Al Faris:’ Fantasy musical set to poetry takes to Dubai stage
A fantasy musical set to poetry by Dubai’s ruler seeks to explain the secret of ...
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In old Damascus, war threatens Syrian handicrafts
The war in Syria has taken a toll on the country’s renowned traditional craft, ...
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Egyptian designer praised as he moves monuments
Graphic designer Amr Eid has taken a series of images of scenes from Egypt and ...
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‘Oldest’ Quran fragments found by British university
Experts believed that the manuscript's writer lived in the time of the prophet ...
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‘Art in Airports’ aims to showcase Saudi culture
Visitors arriving at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh can now visit the ...
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Saudi Arabia to convert four historical sites into outdoor museums
The Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities announced plans to turn four ...
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The Bujairi Quarter: Gateway to historic Saudi Arabia
On the northwestern outskirts of Riyadh sits Diriyah, a site steeped in history
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What’s Zuckerberg reading? A book by Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun is regarded to be among the founding fathers of modern sociology, ...
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Top Muslim body urges protection of Syria's Palmyra
The militants are notorious for demolishing archaeological treasures since ...
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U.N., Arab officials seek to counter militant threat to monuments
Egypt's Antiquities Minister Mamdouh Damaty also warned that heritage sites in the ...
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Vandals attack selfie-taking Ottoman prince statue
The statue, intended to attract tourists, has its defenders
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UNESCO condemns 'severe' bombing damage to Sanaa old town
Sanaa's old city, situated in a mountain valley, has been inhabited for over 2,500 ...
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Botched restoration job has 'ruined' Roman-era murals in Turkey
One of the damaged mosaics is a world-famous depiction of the sacrifice of Issac
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Erdogan: Turkey's ancestors never committed genocide
Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks
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Early Britons ate each other's remains and drank from skulls
“All the bones from the head down were heavily modified with chewing”
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European Parliament votes to call 1915 Armenian killings genocide
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said even before the vote took place that he ...
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At Jordan site, drone offers glimpse of antiquities looting
At a sprawling Bronze Age cemetery archaeologists are peering into the murky world ...
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Let them steal our artifacts, we do not deserve them
What the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has done in Iraq shows that we do ...
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Tutankhamun burial mask permanently damaged
It is believed cleaners might broken off the beard of the 3,000-year-old artifact
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Are Ancient Egyptian scrolls under threat from online auctions?
Experts fear that ancient papyrus scrolls which are being auctioned off online for ...
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For Saudi Arabia’s past generations, life was a quicksand of poverty
Sources of income were tied to labor-intensive tasks such as construction and ...
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Erdogan slams ridicule over ‘Muslims discovered Americas’ claim
Erdogan insisted that highly ‘respected scientists in Turkey and in the world’ ...
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What’s in a date? Why we should trace history
For as long as they have recorded themselves, humans have divided time and ...
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Shock revelations as Egypt’s King Tut unmasked
Researchers found that King Tutankhamun may have not lived the life insinuated by ...
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HIV’s origins traced to Kinshasa in 1920s
A key factor in the pandemic’s spread was the use of trains as transport
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‘Heritage in Peril’: The fight for Iraq’s and Syria’s history
Kerry attended an exhibit at the famed Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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Scotland’s ‘Yes’ campaign winning Facebook battle
Facebook users have totted up about 10 million “interactions” relating to ...
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Sustaining development of Saudi Arabia’s historical Makkah
Saudis must be aware of the history behind these artifacts, including their ...
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Crown Prince Salman tours Jeddah Historical Area
Saudi deputy premier and minister of defense toured Jeddah's historical festival
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Egypt threatens legal action to stop UK museum selling ancient statue
The sale of the Sekhemka statue of a priest is due to take place at a Christie’s ...
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American documentary celebrates a Muslim WWII heroine
It is the story of an unlikely war hero; a Muslim woman, in her late twenties, who ...
Variety