This historical and cultural monument is deeply revered by the Syriac Christian community, serving not only as a place of ...

DR. THOMPSON'S brilliant monograph on ancient Assyrian chemistry is worthy of very careful study. To appreciate it fully one must be both an Assyrio-logist and a chemist, but even those who ...

A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.

15 1220 If water springing up from the earth symbolizes life, the water of the sea is a symbol of death and so can represent the mystery of the cross. By this symbolism Baptism signifies communion ...

Leo I, Quam laudabiliter (447): DS 284.] even before Rome, in 451 at the Council of Chalcedon, came to recognize and receive the Symbol of 381. The use of this formula in the Creed was gradually ...

In Rome, the pope and the catholicos of the Assyrian Church of the East hold an historic meeting, following in the footsteps ...

Mesopotamian trade symbols may be origins of proto-cuneiform. Cylinder seals linked trade to early script development. Study shows transition from trade symbols to structured writing.

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research suggests that these markings informed the development of writing Sarah Kuta ...

Cylinder seals, made of stone, were invented in Uruk, an area in southern Iraq.They were engraved with designs and then ...

According to the researchers, several symbols engraved on stone "cylinder ... throughout the subsequent Babylonian and Assyrian periods. The new study highlights several motifs seen on preliterate ...