Mark Twain declared that the Indian city of Varanasi was older than history, tradition and legend. He was, of course, wrong. So which exactly is the world’s most ancient continuously inhabited city?
June 2010
Why Syria scrubs up so well
Kevin Rushby puts himself at the mercy of a muscular, tattoed masseur in a hamman in the Syrian city of Aleppo
January 2010
Syria's mysterious Dead Cities
These abandoned Byzantine towns are architectural treasures
