(AFP) -- Syriac, an ancient dialect of Aramaic, has traditionally been the language spoken by Christians in Iraq and neighbouring Syria, mostly in homes but also in some schools and during church ...

A landmark conference about Syriac Studies brought more than 70 researchers from 20 countries to Durham last month. The event was a hub for academic collaboration and knowledge sharing. It was also a ...

DEM Party Member of Parliament George Aslan, who celebrated Christmas in Syriac language in the Turkish Grand National Assembly and faced interference from members of the İYİ Party, described the ...

The Department of Living Languages in Mardin Artuklu University is set to launch two courses to teach Hebrew and Syriac. Assistant Prof. Mehmet Sait Toprak said their aim was to train researchers who ...

Texas A&M University historian Dr. Daniel Schwartz has devoted the last decade of his professional life to preserving the past — specifically, the culture of a 2,000-year-old language known as Syriac.

LONDON (Reuters) - What could be the world's earliest example of a question mark has been identified in Classical Syriac manuscripts dating from the 5th Century. The symbol, a double dot resembling ...

Scholars have discovered a 1,750-year-old portion of the Gospel of Matthew in a “layered” manuscript where the original Old Syriac-language writing had been erased and written over, something also ...

Patriarchs of churches of the Syriac tradition pledged their unity in tackling the numerous challenges they face, including the "bleeding of migration" of their faithful in the Middle East. "We find ...

Syriac, an ancient dialect of Aramaic, has been the language spoken by Christians in Iraq and neighbouring Syria for centuries — Waleed AL-KHALID Iraq's shrunken and conflict-scarred Christian ...

Christians in Iraq are trying to preserve the Syriac language, the dialect of Aramaic that was spoken by Jesus, with the government helping by launching a dedicated television station. The Barron's ...

Syriac, an ancient dialect of Aramaic, has been the language spoken by Christians in Iraq and neighboring Syria for centuries In this picture taken May 10, artist and museum curator Saliwa Shamoun ...