Genetic research traced the ancestral homeland of Uralic people, whose descendants live in Russia, Hungary, Finland and ...

It was a most remarkable wedding. Vanessa grew up in our United Methodist congregation. Marwan was a native of Damascus and a ...

It’s part of the 10th- or 11th-century A.D. Codex Climaci Rescriptus, a collection of parchments from St. Catherine’s monastery in Egypt with monastic writings in Syriac, an ancient language ...

Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written ...

A team of researchers at the University of Manchester have secured a major €2.5 million (£2.1 million) grant from the ...

Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. For nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities have used Syriac, an Aramaic dialect, as their liturgical and ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Authorities from the Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria (Rojava) on Wednesday slammed the recent remarks by Syria’s cultural minister claiming that the ...

Promoting language learning through computer science Throughout his language learning endeavors, Kesserwani noticed that most language-learning apps are designed for beginners, and there is a scarcity ...

The Eastern Syriac communities flourished in China during the Tang (618-907) and Yuan (1272-1368) dynasties. Upon arriving in China, the missionary monks encountered a superior culture and, in order ...

Syriac is very similar to the ancient language of Aramaic, which would have been spoken and written in the later stages of the Roman Empire and when Jesus of Nazareth is believed to have lived.