For calligraphers, artists and historians alike, this book is a joy and a wonderful reference source. Delamotte has collected together the scripts of alphabets from the eighth century right up to the ...

My handwriting’s always been bad, but these days it’s bordering on awful. Perhaps I’m channeling my inner Phoenician, for now my printed “A” could pass for a Canaanite “aleph” in the ancient ...

WOODBRIDGE, Va., Oct. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- For some believers, or non-believers, it's common to have a persistent sense that something lies beneath the surface of scripture. Questions may be ...

It has so far proved impossible to assign absolute dates to any of the pre-Islamic monuments in the oasis of al-ʿUlā. Frustration at this has driven some scholars to try to establish a sequence of ...

The Roman alphabet as we know with upper-and lower-case it is an amazing achievement of information design, a medieval and Renaissance European refinement of Roman culture. And it's easy to overlook ...

An international team of archaeologists has uncovered an ancient Biblical era temple in Israel. The ruins of the Canaanite temple were discovered within a large Bronze Age settlement in what is now ...