Was the Phoenician writing system a true alphabet? If not, what should it be called instead, and what was the earliest true ...

Located in the northern Sinai Desert, the site is shedding new light on defensive structures built to protect Egypt's eastern borders ...

But even though we cannot decipher the text, it is still possible to analyze the hell out of it. The manuscript has been found to follow Zipf's law, a law that appears to be followed by all known ...

Pharaoh’s Animal Kingdom, a new exhibition for children at the Israel Museum, explores the relationship between animals and ...

Scholars believe a language used 5,000 years ago on the Asian steppe was the source of many of the world’s modern tongues.

Biblical names never go out of style – they've been among the most popular names for centuries. Here are some perennial favorites, and some you may not be familiar with.