A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...

Some contain unidentifiable writing, but most carry spiral inscriptions of exorcism texts in one of three Aramaic dialects and scripts ... The author traces the bowl magic back to ancient Babylonian ...

This ancient collection of liturgical texts, including some of the earliest Christian writing and second in ... a dialect of Aramaic, which dated from the late 4th Century. Sinai has always ...

The ancient Assyrian language is classified as Akkadian ... One writing in Akkadian on a cuneiform tablet, the other writing in Aramaic on a parchment or papyrus sheet. Among several bronze ...