In time Aramaic became the lingua franca of Mesopotamia, gradually replacing the Akkadian language. The transition was made possible because the two languages shared similarities. Also because the 22 ...

If you're from an Irish family- well, even if you aren't- chances are you have a someone with the name Sean in your midst.

Guest: Daniela Cammack is Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley. Her research and teaching focus on the history of democracy and constitutionalism. She is currently working on a book on ancient Greek ...

In their study, published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the group ... In a new Physical Review Letters study, scientists have demonstrated the first experimental observation of non ...

The time is ripe to celebrate and pass on Assyrian cooking with "The Oldest Kitchen in the World," an essential addition to ...

Just hours before his arrest and Crucifixion, according to the Gospels, Jesus prayed in a garden called Gethsemane, probably from the Aramaic words for oil press. Today many pilgrims come to this ...

How does your brain so quickly make sense of jumbled words that at first glance look like nonsense? Researchers aren’t entirely sure, but they have some suspicions. Yuo cna porbalby raed tihs ...

And with National Scrabble Day just around the corner on April 13, now’s the perfect time to brush up on winning Scrabble words. So, check out our list of 35 powerhouse words guaranteed to help ...

Zachariah and Genevieve are gorgeous names, but when it comes to keeping things simple, shorter monikers — in this case, ...

Silent letters are letters that can’t be heard when the word is spoken. For example in the word 'sword', you don’t pronounce the letter ‘w’. sword And the letter ‘h’ is silent in the ...

It's not that easy to get a letter published in the The Sydney Morning Herald. We get several hundred submissions every day and generally publish about 25. But there are many things you can do to ...