The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most famous mysteries in ancient codicology or paleography. This illustrated manuscript, authored by an unknown writer and ...

The Greek alphabet, believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is undergoing reevaluation by Leiden University.

It was previously believed that the Levantine DNA of the Phoenicians spread as far as their famous alphabet, which influenced ...

Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier says he has identified seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphs on the 75-foot-tall structure, which ...

So, yes: a crisis is when something is broken. But, in ancient Hebrew, the word “mashber” meant something else. It was a birth stool, upon which a woman would crouch when giving birth.

Depictions of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess found on tombs and coffins dating back almost 5,000 years may represent a key feature of the Milky Way. After analyzing hundreds of images of the ...

Rav Avi Weiss singing another song — the iconic “Afn Pripetshik” (“On the Hearth”) about a rebbe teaching children the Hebrew alphabet; and the audience standing to sing the Yiddish ...

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The oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible in existence, the Sassoon Codex, will be on permanent display at ANU, the Museum of ...

A team of archaeologists, biologists, chemists and historians affiliated with several institutions in Europe and the U.K. has found evidence that the remains found in the Tomb of Persephone, in ...

Dr. Yuval Baruch calls the menorah-decorated capital unique evidence of Jewish settlement after Bar Kokhba revolt.

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