Maaloula, Dec 11 (SANA) Nestled in the Qalamoun mountains, about 56 kilometers northeast of Damascus, the historic Syrian town of Maaloula is one of the country’s most unique cultural and spiritual ...

The Royal Commission for AlUla, through the AlUla Languages Institute, is advancing its Ancient Languages Revival Program, a ...

There are things you can set your watch by, things that are as predictable as sunrise. Your child will look at you like you ...

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

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

The black-clad priest yanked on the white rope. At once the bells began to clang. The evening mass was beginning at the Monastery of Mar Maroun, or Saint Maroun, in the town of Annaya, high in the ...

The people and places of the Passion are well documented in the Bible, but pinning down the exact locations and timing of the trials of Jesus in Jerusalem is an ongoing challenge. The Old City of ...

We already know that everything that was created with man, was worthy of existing - except for the foreskin, as the Torah ...

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 ...

It was watched by 250 supporters, from pensioners to bobble-hatted students, waving placards bearing the heart-tugging slogan ...

An exhibition prioritizes the expensive, silent object over the lived, functional experience of the believer.