Aramaic is a language that for some three thousand years facilitated the exchange of ideas across large tracts of the Middle East and Asia. In its heyday it was the main official and written language ...

Aramaic, the biblical language of Jesus is starting to disappear from everyday use in Syria's Maalula Hunched over a thick book, George Zaarour uses a magnifying glass to decipher Aramaic script -- ...

A Christian village in Israel is teaching Aramaic in an effort to revive the ancient language that Jesus spoke - centuries after it all but disappeared from the Middle East. Maronite children from ...

The ancient Assyrian language is classified as Akkadian; it was the language of the Assyrians and Babylonians, written in Cuneiform. To facilitate administrative tasks of the Assyrian Empire Aramaic ...

The 20% of Maalula's inhabitants who can speak the language are over 60 years old George Zaarour, a specialist in the Aramaic language, uses a magnifying glass to decipher Aramaic script in the Syrian ...