A 2,800-year-old incantation, written in Aramaic, describes the capture of a creature called the "devourer" said to be able to produce "fire." Discovered in August 2017 within a small building ...

An inscribed piece of pottery found in an ancient Jewish stronghold in the Jordan Valley has finally been deciphered. The ...

Thanks to AI and modern carbon dating techniques, we have a new understanding of when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written – which could revise the story of Judea ...

The Aramaic language, one of the oldest continuously spoken languages in the world, holds a special place in the hearts of those who cherish linguistic heritage and cultural identity. As a native of ...

For nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities have used Syriac, an Aramaic dialect, as their liturgical and cultural language. Over the centuries, they produced an extensive corpus of ...

Scientists are using it to estimate the age of ancient handwriting ... mostly written in Aramaic and Hebrew, are thought to have been compiled sometime between 300BC and 200AD.