Dec 8 Blog
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
After nearly a decade and a half, archaeologists have returned to northwestern Syria, digging in the shadow of the important Late Bronze Age (c. 1550–1200 […]
May 7 Blog
By: Marek Dospěl
Discover the fascinating history of Coptic, the final stage of the indigenous language of Egypt. Learn about its connection to ancient Egyptian and its significance in the Coptic Church.
Apr 30 Blog
The Egyptian language is the sole representative of an autonomous branch of the Afro-Asiatic (formerly Semito-Hamitic) language family. As such, Egyptian is related to both […]
Apr 16 Blog
By: John Drummond
Biblical Greek, as it is commonly known, is a dialect of the ancient Greek language known as hēkoinēdialektos (“the common dialect”) or Koine Greek. This […]
Sep 29 Blog
Excavations at the site of Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite empire, have revealed a cuneiform tablet written in a previously unknown Indo-European language. According […]
Jun 25 Blog
The oldest Canaanite sentence has been discovered at the site of Tel Lachish, according to an article published in the Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology. The […]
Apr 19 Blog
Despite the progress made deciphering ancient scripts over the past two centuries, a few remain tantalizingly out of reach, including the ancient Iranian script, Linear […]
Jan 30 Blog
By: Jonathan Laden
A bone fragment, marked with symbols, was found in early 2021 in the Ramie region of Israel. At approximately 120,000 years old, it is possibly […]
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