7th: The Umayyad Caliphate, 4.29 million square miles Ergovius/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 The Umayyad Caliphate was the second caliphate established after the death of the Prophet Muhammad ...

Many Yuan monuments remain, including Beijing’s Drum Tower and Bell Tower, pictured here. The Umayyad Caliphate was the second caliphate established after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, and an ...

Many pivotal developments in the course of history did not start in palace halls or parliaments, but rather on battlefields where soldiers and warriors faced deadly opposition and risked their lives ...

And don’t think that they’re completely out of grasp, either. Some of these coins have been found in rivers, in ruins and with metal detectors. From 696 to 723, the Umayyad Caliphate released a ...

For Michael Danti of the University of Pennsylvania, the two decades before the civil war in Syria were “a golden age” for ...

Unearthed at Huqoq, the artifact may represent the missing link between 1,300-year-old Merovingian rings and popular medieval ...

Gaziantep carpet makers in southeastern Türkiye have started working to renovate the carpets of the historical Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. After the fall of the Assad regime, as life begins to ...

At least four people were killed after a stampede at the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital Damascus on Friday. "Damascus Health Director Dr Mohammed Akram Maatouq announced that the final ...