New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East’s oldest continuously spoken and ...

Archaeologists traced a 2,000-foot limestone boulevard likely linking the Pool of Siloam to the Temple Mount, built under the ...

New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East's oldest continuously spoken and written languages. New ...

Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 115, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1995), pp. 33-51 (19 pages) During a recent visit to Iraqi Kurdistan I recorded texts in the Christian Neo-Aramaic dialects of ...

The Haggadah tells one of the oldest stories of all time: Moses leading the ancient Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. That tale is retold every year in Jewish homes around the world during Passover, ...

The ancient Assyrian language is classified as Akkadian; it was the language of the Assyrians and Babylonians, written in Cuneiform. To facilitate administrative tasks of the Assyrian Empire Aramaic ...

Vol. 103, No. 1, Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East, by Members of the American Oriental Society, Dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer (Jan. - Mar., 1983), pp. 261-274 (14 pages) The regular ...

BERLIN — Jesus spoke Aramaic. It was his mother tongue and 2,000 years ago it was the main language throughout the Middle ...