He is composing Aramaic songs in the hope that music will breathe life into the language. He has researched and revived the Aramaic alphabet and is working to translate the Bible. So far, he has ...

MAALULA, Syria -- In this quaint stone village perched high in the mountains above Damascus, the language of Jesus Christ has somehow, miraculously, endured through the millennia. Aramaic, which ...

A popular Facebook post claimed that an Aramaic-language scroll discovered by archaeologists in 1892 led to a more accurate and definitive translation of the Lord's Prayer.

Both Egyptian and cuneiform survived for 4,000 years, a millennium longer than the Latin alphabet that Westerners use today, and both died in the early centuries of the Christian era after long ...

A stone tablet billed as the oldest extant copy of the Ten Commandments is slated to go on auction at Sotheby’s in New York on Wednesday — but some experts are skeptical of its provenance ...

The Times report also noted that the inscription is written in a version of Paleo-Hebrew, an alphabet that was replaced among mainstream Jews by a variant of the Aramaic alphabet more than 2,000 ...

DAMASCUS, 11 January (BelTA - SANA Agensy). - The oldest cuneiform alphabet in history was discovered in Ugarit (Ras Shamra), an ancient city located on the Syrian coast, dating back to 1500 BC.