Who is responsible for the birth of Christianity? As with any major phenomenon, the answer is complex. Christianity developed ...

MAALOULA, Syria (AP) — Church bells echoed across the rocky slopes of this ancient Syrian town on a ... where residents still use a dialect of Aramaic — the language Jesus is believed to ...

Undertaking this degree will unlock the key to a rich and varied range of past civilisations and to engage with them in their original languages, which include Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Akkadian, Sumerian ...

In the past, dating the widespread use of iron in India to around the turn of the 1st millennium BCE seemed reasonable. The Hittites, an ancient Anatolian civilisation (c. 1600–1178 BCE) from ...

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 ...

The Ancient City houses the strange and massive portal-like structure at the center. This portal consists of strange blocks that are harder than Obsidian and take longer time to break it. So, ...

“His excited shout brought the team together, marking the beginning of an extraordinary discovery: a nearly complete skull of an ancient apex carnivore, a dream for any vertebrate paleontologist.

The materials unearthed during the excavations by TNSDA in the ancient port town of Korkai in Thoothukudi district in 1968-69 and in recent years had shed light on the long-established trade ...

A rare skull found in Egypt reveals Bastetodon, a top predator from 30 million years ago. This discovery rewrites what we know about ancient carnivores, proving that African hyaenodonts had their own ...

The tiny cuts and grooves that decorate some ancient human artifacts are not just pretty accidents, according to some archaeologists. The subtle patterns could be early signs of creativity and ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...

Even after 5,000 years in a sarcophagus, mummified bodies from ancient Egypt still smell quite nice, scientists have discovered. Researchers who examined nine mummies found that though there was ...