An archaeologist who was recently sifting through debris in Israel uncovered a link to a legendary biblical king from the House of David. The Temple Mount Sifting Project announced the discovery on ...

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The donkeys, found buried under a Bronze Age house in ancient Gath, near Tell es-Safi, were determined to have originated from ancient Egypt. A team of archaeologists has made a groundbreaking ...

An inscription is written in the Proto-Sinaitic Script, the direct precursor to the Phoenician consonantal alphabet. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, public domain According to the Bible, the ancient ...

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In western Syria, archaeologists believe they have unearthed evidence of the earliest use of an alphabet in the world. The site, called Tell Umm el-Marra was an important urban center in Syria and one ...

Researchers may have deciphered the oldest known scrap of alphabetic writing yet discovered, and it may be a nearly 4,500-year-old gift tag. A clay cylinder found in a tomb holding six skeletons in ...

The oldest known alphabetic writing has been found etched onto finger-length clay cylinders unearthed from a tomb in Syria. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in the US dated the writing to ...

Researchers have discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing was etched onto clay cylinders discovered during a dig at an ancient Syrian city. What appears to be ...

Stained glass depiction of Aaron with the scapegoat performing an ancient Hebrew custom from the Lincoln Cathedral. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY 2.0 The word “scapegoat” is an expression that we ...

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