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Fertile Crescent

An image distributed by ISIS militants on social media purports to show the destruction of a Roman-era temple in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra
I’m one of hundreds of archaeologists exiled from Syria who’s mourning what the war is costing us
Seydo, a Kurdish nomad, with his flock in southeastern Turkey
Culture
A journalist on a seven-year trek and a shepherd say goodbye to 12,000 years of human history