The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs found at a number of Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, according to a new analysis. According to the new study by the Wilfrid Laurier ...

In a recent Biblical Archaeology Review article,* epigraphy scholar Christopher Rollston asks a seemingly straightforward question: What is the oldest Hebrew inscription? His examination requires him ...

The cave was already known to archaeologists as it contains a stalactite with a fragmentary ink inscription written in ancient Hebrew script characteristic of the First Temple period. In spring 2023, ...

The language of the world's first alphabet could have been Hebrew. This is according to an archaeologist who has spent the past four years piecing together the letters of the alphabet from ...

European Research Council awards grant to develop computational analysis of 95,000 old manuscripts and fragments in National Library of Israel. Menorah and other vessels pictured in a 14th century ...

Five lines of ancient script on a shard of pottery could be the oldest example of Hebrew writing ever discovered, an archaeologist in Israel says. The shard was found by a teenage volunteer during a ...

The Academy of the Hebrew Language, the official governing body of the modern Hebrew language, announced on Monday that from now on the Hebrew alphabet will consist of 23 letters. The name of the new ...

Though Hebrew is recognized as one of the three official languages of the mandated territory of Palestine, the acceptance of telegrams in Hebrew script is not obligatory upon the Palestine postal ...