AINA

Assyrian Scholar Offers New Classifications for Syriac Script

(AINA) -- For many decades the different types of Syriac script remained classified and named by western scholars along the lines of the different oriental churches, such as the Nestorian, Chaldean ...
AINA

When Turkish Was Written in the Greek, Armenian and Assyrian Script

The Syriac-script, trilingual (Syriac-Arabic-Turkish) biweekly Leshono d'Umtho, or Tongue of the Nation. Beirut, 1928. (British Library) For those who have learnt foreign languages, the presence of a ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

Rare Assyrian inscription unearthed near Temple Mount reveals communication with the King of Judah

The finding provides “direct evidence of official correspondence between the Assyrian Empire and the Kingdom of Judah," according to an excavation expert. Archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered a ...
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Rare First Temple-era Assyrian inscription found in Jerusalem confirms connection with ancient Judah

Historical evidence showing communication between the Assyrian Empire and the king of Judah has been discovered next to the Western Wall during an Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) excavation in ...
Arutz Sheva

First time in Jerusalem: Assyrian inscription from the First Temple period discovered

A tiny, extremely rare pottery sherd bearing a cuneiform inscription in the Akkadian language from about 2,700 years ago was discovered in an archaeological excavation near the Western Wall of the ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

First Assyrian inscription ever found in Jerusalem uncovered near western wall

Israel’s antiquities authority reports discovery of an Assyrian inscription from the first temple period - evidence of an assyrian presence in the kingdom of judah. A new study by the Israel ...