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

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

Ahhh, Arabic! The dazzling gem of the Arab world has been captivating linguists and language lovers for centuries. With today ...

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.

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

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

The provisions of the Charter of Regional or Minority Languages in Ukraine will not apply to the Russian language, the Verkhovna Rada decided. A total of 264 deputies voted in favor of the relevant ...

The Hebrew Consortium is proud to celebrate a major milestone in global Hebrew education: the international expansion of the Hebrew Olympiad. Launched last year in partnership with Tel Aviv University ...

Two books of the Old Testament - Wisdom and II Machabees - were written in Greek. The rest of the Old Testament was written in the Hebrew language. The New Testament was written in Greek, with the ...

Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s sweeping and experimental anti-war novel John D. Negroponte, a career diplomat and national ...