Old Rare Hoard Including 160 Jewish Coins Buried Under a Building, Leave Them Puzzled Archaeologists have uncovered a ...

Approximately 160 coins minted around 80 B.C. were discovered stashed in the walls of a building in the Jordan Valley. The ...

When I visited Maaloula in southwest Syria in 2016, the Jabhat Al-Nusra (the predecessor of the Hayat Tahrir Ash Sham jihadis ...

A small number of Assyrians survived the Sayfo in Turkey. In the late 20th century this population suffered another exodus as ...

Widely spoken by Aramaeans, a tribal Semitic people inhabiting the ancient Near East, the Aramaic language dates back to the late 11th century BCE. The 3000-year-old language is often termed the ...

The church bells still ring in Syria’s ancient Christian enclaves ... and Syria remains one of the rare places where Aramaic — the language of Jesus — is still spoken. Since the onset of the civil war ...

The heady world of the early Christians began with Jewish followers of Jesus and later became dominated by Romans attracted ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — This Christmas morning in Syria’s capital, Christians dressed in their finest clothes, attended church and participated in the annual parade through the ancient part of the city.

Dr. Yoav Farhi, part of the research team and an expert on ancient coins ... ‘King Alexander Year 25’ in Aramaic, and on the reverse an anchor appears surrounded by the Greek words ...

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The shrine attracted global attention in 2016 when restorers uncovered remnants of an ancient tomb behind its ... probably from the Aramaic words for oil press. Today many pilgrims come to this ...