When British archaeologist Max Mallowan investigated the neo-Assyrian site of Nimrud in northern Iraq, he got help from ...

Young Jewish-Americans have been looking for new ways to engage with Jewish culture. Some have found community by learning Yiddish, a language with roots in 10th century Europe.

Since the late 1860s, Taishanese (also known as Toisanese or Hoisanwa) has been one of the most common languages spoken in San Francisco. But since then, virtually the only way to learn Taishanese in ...

Learn English useful for talking about the Census, data security, and protecting personal information. Practise everyday ...

As discussions continue over the drafting of Syria's future constitution, advocates for the country's indigenous Assyrian ...

By feeding centuries-old nursery rhymes and folklore recordings into their own model, linguists in Louisiana hope to help a ...

On the night of October 4, 2025, NASA’s Perseverance rover tilted its cameras away from the rocks of Jezero Crater and toward the Martian sky. The target was Comet 3I/ATLAS, a chunk of ice and dust ...

A fresh translation of a fragmentary Sumerian tablet has revealed one of the world's oldest surviving narratives featuring a cunning fox as an unlikely hero. The ancient clay tablet, designated Ni ...

I moved from Rhode Island to New Jersey a few months ago with the hope of finding a larger Syriac [Assyrian] community--more families, more gatherings, and more opportunities for my children to grow ...

After Assyrian families in Skokie, Niles, Morton Grove and Lincolnwood spent nearly a decade advocating for an Assyrian language program at Niles Township High School District 219, the program, the ...

Mexico City's iconic Zócalo square was filled with the sounds of laughter and bouncing soccer balls on 15 March, as the country hosted the largest football (soccer) lesson in history to prepare for ...

Armenia is the most homogenous country in the post-Soviet world, with 98% of its citizens identified as ethnic Armenians. Nevertheless, other ethnic groups live in the country, including Russians, ...