A 2,000-year-old code that once looked like random scratches on parchment has finally given up its secret, turning a handful of obscure Dead Sea fragments into a new window on one of antiquity’s most ...

The inscription is thought to have been created up to 200 years ago Mysterious Hebrew writing found by builders on a paving stone while renovating a home is essentially gibberish, a university ...

JERUSALEM — On June 11, Israeli typeface designer and professor Liron Lavi Turkenich found herself teaching a new student: her country’s president, Reuven Rivlin. Turkenich, a 32-year-old professor of ...

Aravit sculpture at 2020 World Expo in DubaiAFP via Getty Images When Liron Lavi Turkenich designed a writing system combining Hebrew and Arabic characters as a final project in college, she probably ...

A museum worker gestures to the 'Gabriel Stone,' displayed in an exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The object is an ancient stone featuring mysterious Hebrew writing.Sebastian Scheiner / ...

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was the father of modern Hebrew. He was also the father of Ittamar Ben-Avi, who had his own ideas. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the late inventor of modern Hebrew, was feted recently in his ...

JTA — When Liron Lavi Turkenich designed a writing system combining Hebrew and Arabic characters as a final project in college, she probably could not have imagined that her script would become the ...

A sculpture featuring Aravrit forms the centerpiece of the Israel pavilion at the 2020 World Expo in Dubai. (JTA) — When Liron Lavi Turkenich designed a writing system combining Hebrew and Arabic ...

ON the return to England of the members of the Marston-Wellcome Archaeological Expedition to Lachish at the close of excavations for the season 1937–38, further discoveries of examples of early Hebrew ...

Mysterious Hebrew writing found by builders on a paving stone while renovating a home is essentially gibberish, a university academic has concluded. John Adams, from Norbury in Shropshire, posted ...