João Baptista Vargens marks 50 years teaching Arabic at UFRJ in Under the Aegis of Minerva, recounting research, travel, and ...

In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

From Latin and Chinese to Tamil and Telugu, discover the top ten most popular writing scripts used around the world ...

Amber from Tree Sap to Magnificent Artifact, authored by Salman Ali Ahmed al-Hail, adds a rare and meticulously researched wo ...

Despite tensions between the Vatican and Israel's government over the Gaza war, some Jews and Christians living in Israel are trying to build trust between their communities.

Doha: President of the Administrative Control and Transparency Authority (ACTA), H E Hamad bin Nasser Al Misnad (pictured) affirmed that the Arabic language constitutes a fundamental pillar in ...

Damascus, Dec 18 (SANA) The Arab world celebrates World Arabic Language Day on December 18th each year. This day was adopted by the United Nations in 1973 when Arabic was adopted as one of the ...

In a historic move, Pakistan's Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) has introduced a Sanskrit course, marking a significant first since partition. The curriculum includes Hindu epics like ...

More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape It is not likely to be a hefty volume because the vast majority of the material has been lost ...

It is clear that the sprawling city of Teotihuacan near Mexico City was a major metropolis of the ancient world, but what do all those glyphs mean? By Alan Yuhas It was a metropolis of the ancient ...

It is the dream of every ethnologist to discover a wholly new cultural group. In our time, however, that sounds near-impossible. But the unique story of the Magyarabs proved everyone wrong. The ...