High-resolution photography at the turquoise mines of Serabit el-Khadem in Egypt’s south-central Sinai Peninsula highlighted ...

Recent readings on inscriptions written in an ancient alphabet, the Proto-Sinaitic Script, may well provide proof of the ...

When the system was applied to 135 previously undated fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, it consistently produced earlier dates than traditional paleographic methods.

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Middle East peace may remain out of reach, but at least the Hebrew and Arabic languages have found a compromise. Examples of Aravit words hanging on display. (Courtesy of Liron Lavi ...

Clay cylinders unearthed from a tomb in Syria and dated to 4,400 years ago are inscribed with traces of the earliest known alphabetic writing system, an analysis suggests. The tomb was discovered ...

If the inscription is confirmed as a sample of proto-Hebrew writing, it will fuel further debate and controversy about the existence as early as the 10th Century BC of an advanced political system ...

The inscription is thought to have been created up to 200 years ago Mysterious Hebrew writing found by builders on a paving stone while renovating a home is essentially gibberish, a university ...

The Academy of the Hebrew Language announced that a mirror image of the letter Tzadi would be added to the alphabet to spell out a 'Ch.' It quickly clarified that the announcement was an April ...

And I am enchanted by the writing on the shard, hinting at the beginning of written Hebrew, and at the beginning of a national moral code.