(AINA) -- For many decades the different types of Syriac script remained classified and named by western scholars along the lines of the different oriental churches, such as the Nestorian, Chaldean ...

The epitaphs were found during studies carried out with the approval of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Diyarbakır's Silvan district. According to Dicle University faculty member leading the ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cambridge University manuscript specialist, Dr. Chip Coakley has identified what may be the world’s earliest example of a question mark. The symbol in question is two dots, one above ...

NICOSIA (Reuters Life!) - Authorities in northern Cyprus believe they have found an ancient version of the Bible written in Syriac, a dialect of the native language of Jesus. The manuscript was found ...

For those who have learnt foreign languages, the presence of a loanword can be both comforting and surreal. In languages written in non-Roman scripts, a borrowed word – take computer as an example – ...

KOZHIKODE: Consumed by time, Suriyani Malayalam, an early Malayalam dialect wrote in a variant form of Syriac script, might be taken off the shelves soon if Anshuman Pandey’s ambitious project reaches ...

NICOSIA -- Authorities in northern Cyprus believe they have found an ancient version of the Bible written in Syriac, a dialect of the native language of Jesus. The manuscript was found in a police ...