Experts have undertaken a massive effort of hauling massive blocks of an ancient lost wonder of the world out of the sea in ...

Thirty years after its discovery, pieces of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which stood watch long ago in the harbors of ...

After nearly thirty years of Armenian vandalism that turned it into ruins, Karabakh has entered a new era. Like other ...

Like Mohammad and his wife, thousands of people in Iran have been left homeless. The Iranian government has promised to cover ...

An Ancient City, Now in Ruins, Struggles to Keep Its Soul. ... indications of significant reconstruction were nearly nonexistent. Instead, the damaged city was still being dismantled, ...

Can ruins become the material for rebuilding? NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Palestinian architect Yara Sharif about the future reconstruction of Gaza.

The Gaza Strip is in ruins. There are hills of rubble where apartment blocks stood, and pools of sewage-tainted water spreading disease. City streets have been churned into dirt canyons and, in ...

Experts say reconstruction could take decades. “This war is destruction and misery. It would make the stones cry out,” said Shifaa Hejjo, a 60-year-old housewife living in a tent pitched on land where ...