When the Babylonians conquered ancient Judah in the 6th century B.C.E., sending many Israelites into exile, Hebrew gradually ceased to be spoken. It became primarily a written language, used in ...

Some languages have been around for thousands of years and are still spoken today. One of the oldest of these is Greek, which has been in use for about 3,400 years. Although modern Greeks speak a ...

The knotty question of the origins of our alphabet has been ... excavation of the ancient Canaanite city of Lachish led by Yosef Garfinkel of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Michael Hasel ...

As for Mr. Broome it is sufficient to say that he supposes the square Hebrew characters to constitute an independent alphabet of early origin, and the zodiac of Denderah to be “the oldest ...