The oldest recorded alphabet may be Hebrew. According to a controversial new study by archaeologist and ancient inscription specialist Douglas Petrovich, Israelites in Egypt took 22 ancient Egyptian ...

The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs found at a number of Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, according to a new analysis. According to the new study by the Wilfrid Laurier ...

ON the return to England of the members of the Marston-Wellcome Archaeological Expedition to Lachish at the close of excavations for the season 1937–38, further discoveries of examples of early Hebrew ...

An analysis by prominent biblical epigraphers of a textual inscription within the controversial "sign of Jonah" engraving discovered in a first century CE Jerusalem tomb appears to strongly support ...

JERUSALEM — On June 11, Israeli typeface designer and professor Liron Lavi Turkenich found herself teaching a new student: her country’s president, Reuven Rivlin. Turkenich, a 32-year-old professor of ...

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WHAT makes a nation adopt a new script? İlker Aytürk, a political scientist with a penchant for the history of language at Ankara's Bilkent University, tackles this question in a new paper in the ...