Those Jewish acts were visible and audible statements of their identity. Statements of pride in their own culture that ...

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom in the temple of Philae is the last known use of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, but why did they stop being used?

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

The question of whether Jesus spoke and taught in Greek has, at times in the past, been a subject of serious debate. But for ...

Amazon Prime is releasing the first season of HOUSE OF DAVID, an epic TV series about the life of King David. Based on First ...

All languages likely come from a single original one, and early people began spreading around the world 135,000 years ago.

Legend has it that nearly two and a half centuries before President Trump declared English as the official language of the United States, Hebrew was proposed as an alternative.

Dating to the year 700 CE, the Afghan Liturgical Quire is on view at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library's exhibit, ...

After having declared Prakrits to be classical, it is redundant to accord the status to the modern-day new Indic languages.

As a scholar who studies Jewish languages, I have collected countless examples of Jews around the world using variants of the ...

A fierce rivalry between four scholars ignited a race to crack the world’s oldest writing, unlocking the secrets of Mesopotamia after millennia of silence.

The conjecture that the Irish, like the other inhabitants of the British Isles are of Hebrew extraction has for many ...