An international team of geneticists, led by researchers from Trinity College in collaboration with archaeologists from ...

Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery in southern Britain shows that women were closely related while unrelated men ...

An ancient cemetery reveals a Celtic tribe that lived in England 2,000 years ago and that was organized around maternal ...

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 ...

He highlighted the need to "ensure full citizenship rights for everyone, as well as the right to speak in the Kurdish and Syriac languages. This is a general demand, and I believe it should be ...

While the history of the alphabet of a particular language may not be of interest to many, it was quite significant to the Greeks. Lots of ancient Greek records contain stories about how they got ...

Ignatius Aphrem II, patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church, at Christmas Eve Mass at St ... attended church and participated in the annual parade through the ancient part of the city. Yet beneath the ...

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 ... Ignatius ...

DAMASCUS - 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.

The ancient Egyptians celebrated the new year in a variety of ways, including having feasts, giving gifts, and exposing statues of gods to sunlight so they could be "regenerated." When you ...

Originating in ancient India, Sanskrit is the classical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, still used in religious and scholarly contexts. One of the longest-surviving classical languages, ...