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 ...

Previously underappreciated ancient liturgies are making a comeback. One such liturgy? Tenebrae. In the Diocese of Columbus, home to 280,000 Catholics, some 14 parishes (including St. Joseph ...

New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East's oldest continuously spoken ...

It turned out an expert in ancient Aramaic inscriptions had etched the words into the shard last summer. ... Darius I ruled the ancient Persian Achaemenid Empire from 522 BC until his death in 486 BC.

Maronite Catholic conference features Aramaic liturgy and first-class relics of the saints, including the crib of Jesus, the Holy Cross, and the Twelve Apostles.

Discovered in Iran, these tablets form one of the largest groups of ancient Aramaic records ever found. They are part of the Persepolis Fortification Archive, an immense group of administrative ...

VATICAN CITY — One of Benedict XVI’s most controversial achievements was his liberalization of the ancient liturgy through his 2007 apostolic letter issued motu proprio, Summorum Pontificum.

The common source of Jewish and Christian liturgical music in the ancient Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, a subject of controversy for almost 2,000 years, has been substantiated by Dr. Eric Werner, a ...