The project aims to produce a record of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland, though the majority of these ...

Researchers are using a very modern tool to transcribe and read hundreds of thousands of medieval manuscripts from the lost ...

Here’s a brain-teaser: the name “Jesus” would have meant absolutely nothing to the man from Nazareth himself. In fact, the letter “J” never existed during his era. For anyone who’s ever wondered how ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

For decades, a handful of Dead Sea fragments written in an unknown alphabet sat in scholarly limbo, legible in shape but mute in meaning. Now a researcher has finally cracked that hidden script, ...

A researcher has solved one of the longstanding riddles of the Dead Sea Scrolls by deciphering a hidden script within the ...

A scholar claims to have deciphered Cryptic B, a mysterious alphabet in the Dead Sea Scrolls long thought impossible to read.

Zionists draw on the military imagery of Hanukkah, while others look to the synagogue prayers that focus on the miracle of ...

In 1905, archaeologists at Serabit el-Khadim in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula uncovered mysterious inscriptions carved into the walls of a 4,000-year-old turquoise mine. The strange symbols, later called ...

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. For the past 643 consecutive ...

Archaeologists believe they’ve fully excavated eight rooms carved from stone, which were used for ritual practices during the eighth century B.C. Evidence shows that the use of the rooms was ...

In 2004, while she was still a meticulous young graduate student, Elaine Sullivan made a discovery that would deepen the history of human writing. Using trowels and brushes to remove ancient soil at ...