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

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

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

For decades, a handful of Dead Sea fragments written in an unknown alphabet sat in scholarly limbo, legible in shape but mute ...

For decades, one script embedded in the Dead Sea Scrolls resisted all efforts to unlock its meaning. Known as Cryptic B, the ...

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

Archaeologists at Mleiha open a 20-pound jar containing 409 silver coins, revealing Hellenistic-Arab ambition and power.

Researchers in Israel are hoping to make new discoveries about Jewish history by loading a digital database of manuscripts ...

(REVIEW) In 1492, Italian artist Carlo Crivelli painted an idealized portrait of the Immaculate Conception for the church of San Francis in Pergola, a small town in central Italy. Observed every Dec.

Born in Moscow in 1993, Alexander Listengort graduated from the Moscow State Linguistic University, where he studied ...

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 Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission launched Children’s Literary Week in Qatif Governorate. The four-day ...