Part of this month’s Important Judaica sale, the medieval work is expected to fetch between $1.5 and $2.5 million.

Kihm predicts that names linked to ancient civilisations will be a trend in 2026. As well as being a way to reflect a ...

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Ancient seal from seventh century BCE with Hebrew writing. Credit: Wikipedia Commons, public domain The Greek alphabet has a long and fascinating history. In fact, its origin goes right back to one of ...

The paper is released for public view weeks after Google announced its AI model, DolphinGemma, which is set to revolutionize dolphin communication Getty Research reveals that dolphins can mimic human ...

Hebrew vowels make their appearance through ‘nikkud’—a system of 16 different symbols representing 5 basic vowel sounds. These symbols are strategically placed around the letters to guide ...

Did you know that the ancient scrolls of the Torah don’t contain any vowels? Unlike English, where vowels are explicitly represented as letters (A, E, I, O, U) and are fundamental to every word, ...

The Hebrew Bible is full of wordplay, making it difficult to decide when to transliterate a word. The most common reason scholars transliterate Hebrew is that they refer to proper nouns. Diving and ...

It is the earliest surviving example of a single manuscript containing all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible with punctuation, vowels and accents. US lawyer and former ambassador Alfred Moses bought it for ...