Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic. While Christ preached sermons and made his cry from the cross in a dialect spoken in Roman Palestine, another dialect of Aramaic developed further east in Edessa ...

The fall of Bashar Assad’s regime on Sunday, after years of civil war and opposition unrest, has brought a new focus on Syria’s cultural heritage. Among the many stories resurfacing in the ...

To facilitate administrative tasks of the Assyrian Empire Aramaic was made the second official language in 752 B.C. The Empire chancelleries adopted a simple standard form of the Aramaic for ...

I’m grateful to The New York Times for highlighting the Syrian rebel attack on the ancient Christian ... Most of the town’s residents have fled, and Maaloula, one of the last places where Aramaic, the ...