Vienna -- In the hushed world of Assyrian (Syriac) manuscripts, where the faint ink of saints, poets, and scholars still murmurs through the centuries, damage is more than decay; it is silence. A tear ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CHICAGO — It was a monumental project with modest beginnings: a small group of scholars and some index cards. The plan was to explore a long-dead language ...

The Tur Abdin region, in particular, has remained one of the most important centers of this heritage through its monasteries, churches, Assyrian language, literature, and centuries-old cultural ...

A crowd erupted into cheers during a recent meeting of the District 219 Niles Township High School Board of Education after the board voted unanimously to add an Assyrian language and culture course ...

If you come across a word or phrase in another language, a printed or online dictionary is usually a good place to look for help. If you're faced with a language that's long been dead, however, then ...

Erica Reiner, 81, an authority on one of the world’s oldest written languages, died of lung cancer Dec. 31 at her home in Chicago. For more than two decades, Reiner was the main editor of the Chicago ...

Shabo Rhawi is clearly vexed during our first meeting. Sitting in the office of Elafskolan, the only school in Europe with a curriculum specifically designed for Assyrian children, the headmaster ...

It took Aramaic speakers 1,500 years to agree on Christology, now their main debate is over Assyrian identity. Could Pope Francis’ visit to Iraq encourage unity? Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to Iraq ...

Students at Niles North and Niles West High Schools may soon be the first in the country able to take an accredited Assyrian language and culture course if the Niles Township High School District 219 ...