AMMAN - The Safaitic script belongs to the group of South Semitic scripts and was used by Arabs in southern Syria, northern ...

Scenes like those out of a horror film unfolded in Lebanon this week. Randa Najdi, a 35-year-old Arabic teacher, was meandering through a crowded market in southern Beirut on 17 September when an ...

From its origins in Arabia, the Muslim faith spread rapidly and developed a distinctive culture, including a form of art that has thrived through the centuries to be instantly recognizable ...

Commerce along sea routes was central to how Ancient Indian ideas spread around the world. William Dalrymple's new book ...

The oldest eyeliner ever found has been unearthed in the ruins of a prehistoric city, revealing humans used makeup over 8,000 ...

Kumarajiva, for example, was a monk of Indian heritage who translated the “Lotus Sutra”, a key Buddhist text ... in ancient Indian story anthologies, as do the Arabian Nights. Via Arabic ...

There were positive links between the ancient Hebrews and the first Persian emperor, Cyrus, who liberated them from their ...

Inaugural summer session attracted a diverse group of students, who took a deep dive into the living tradition of ...

An extraordinary discovery in the ancient ruins of Yeşilova Höyük, a prehistoric city in western Turkey, has provided ...

The final two chapters focus on recent changes in Irish food culture over the last six decades. Firstly, the growing ...