BEIRUT/DAMASCUS — Daesh militants published photos on Tuesday purporting to show the destruction of a Roman-era temple in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, an act the UN cultural agency UNESCO has ...

The hardline Islamic State group has destroyed part of an ancient temple in Syria's Palmyra city, a group monitoring the conflict said on Sunday. The militants targeted the Temple of Bel, a Roman ...

The Ugaritic expression “Baal, son of Dagan” has been the subject of several studies which attempt to resolve the contradiction between the depiction of Baal as El's son on the one hand and the ...

Last week IS militants had blown up the ancient Baal Shamin temple, built in 17 AD, and Maamoun Abdulkarim the chief of Syria's antiquities, had expressed his concerns that the Temple of Bel would ...

The temple of Baal, dedicated to a Semitic god and consecrated in 32AD, was the centre of religious life in the ancient city.

The expedition, which is headed by Professor Ernst Sellin, started its work in 1914, but was interrupted during the war. Professor Sellin believes that the Temple of Baal which he discovered is ...