Jabreen Castle in Oman is last up from these Middle Eastern castles to visit. It dates back to the late 1600s and was both a strategic structure on top of being a center for the sciences.

A Medieval Castle in the Middle East. Western Syria is the unlikely home of Crac des Chevaliers, a treasure of the Crusades. By . Christian C. Sahner. Share. Resize.

Jordan has long been a favourite spot for visitors to the Middle East, with its well developed tourism infrastructure and its abundance of historic sights. The ancient Nabataean kingdom's capital ...

Near the city of Homs, in the strategic Orontes River valley, which has served as a battleground of clashing empires for more than 4,000 years, Syrian rebels say they only recently routed regime ...

Sand Storms and Couscous Castles Art from the Middle East and North Africa at the Guggenheim. By David D'Arcy • 04/28/16 9:00am . Sign Up For Our Daily Newsletter Sign Up ...

An eighth- or ninth-century B.C. Urartian castle similar to the one recently found in eastern Turkey Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed a 2,800-year-old ...

09/22/2022 September 22, 2022. Thanks to climate change, the Middle East is getting hotter faster than any other part of the world. This means the region's pyramids, castles, churches and other ...