They celebrate the Divine Liturgy of St James in Classical Aramaic, the language of Jesus -- from which their vernacular ... by a scholar who prided himself on his time spent studying ancient Syriac ...

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

Also their liturgy was originally in the Syriac language which the Chaldean church used. Although an ancient rite, it had no single administrator until Pope John Paul II appointed a Major ...

From the believed birthplace of Jesus Christ in Palestine, to a minimalist marvel in Abu Dhabi, these houses of worship are testament to the Middle East's unbroken links to the origins of Christianity ...

The reopening in late 2022 showcased a beautifully restored 5th- or 6th-century mosaic, discovered in 1894 on the grounds of an ancient Armenian monastery complex, serving as the museum’s ...

One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...

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Alexander the Great, known as Iskandar or Dhul-Qarnayn in Islam, holds a unique place in Islamic history as a figure with ...

The recent and rapid rise of Large Language Models (LLMs ... Early evidence of symbolic thinking includes ancient cave art, which suggests a time where sounds and symbols were associated with ...

View of the remains of the Syriac Sanctuary of the Janiculum in Rome ... connected to the persistence of pagan cults in a commercial and productive area tied to Rome’s ancient markets and river docks.