These sacred texts, written in Ge'ez, a language known only to the Kessim (Ethiopian Jewish priests), hold significant cultural and historical importance.

A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books—the oldest found to date in the ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered ancient tombs adorned with hieroglyphic inscriptions and rare artifacts.

After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the ...

Recent readings on inscriptions written in an ancient alphabet, the Proto-Sinaitic Script, may well provide proof of the ...

A tractate concerning Jewish monetary law from the Babylonian Talmud, scribed in 1721 by a 12-year-old Amschel Moses ...

He'll ride to raise money for cancer research and treatment in honor of fellow pitcher Tim Wakefield, who died in 2023 of ...

Evidence of textile workshops demonstrates that girls’ labour was valued enough to be documented in administrative records alongside adult workers.

Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written with mostly Greek letters. This video traces the development of Coptic ...

Jews and Jewish tradition have always paid special attention to those who stand with us. Perhaps that’s why a single verse near the end of Parshat Beha’alotecha stands out, in ...

The Rosetta Stone, a treasure discovered in 1799 during Napoleon Bonaparte’s campaign in Egypt, played a key role in deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Representing a fragment of a larger stone ...