Aramaic

Excavations Reveal 2,000-Year-Old Tombs with Rare Inscriptions in Ancient Mesopotamian City

2,000-year-old tombs unearthed in the ancient city of Edessa (Antioch) in present-day Turkey reveal a rare inscribed tablet detailing the…

2 months ago

Twin Temples in Iraq Hint at Alexander the Great's Influence

Archaeologists in Iraq have made a remarkable discovery, unearthing twin temples, one built atop the other. The newer Hellenistic temple,…

1 year ago

Assyrian loanwords in Kurdish

While many make a huge deal of foreign loanwords in Classical Syriac or Modern Assyrian Aramaic, little do we realise…

2 years ago