A mysterious inscription sheds light on the issue of whether the Great Mosque of Homs in Syria was constructed over the ...

A newly examined Greek inscription uncovered inside Homs’ Great Mosque of al-Nuri is reopening an old argument with big implications: does the mosque sit directly over the long-lost Elagabalus Temple, ...

A newly analyzed Greek inscription indicates that the Great Mosque of Homs likely stands on the site of the Roman Temple of the Sun, revealing a layered history of pagan, Christian, and Islamic ...

Inscriptions are important links to the past for historians. Figuring them out and their various features provides many crucial insights. Recently, a study published in the journal Studium Biblicum ...

In a stunning turn of events, archaeologists in Frankfurt, Germany, have uncovered a 1,800-year-old silver amulet, believed to be the earliest known evidence of Christianity north of the Alps. This ...

While one bemoans the loss of heritage, there is also some exciting news for those interested in Bengaluru’s local history. A project to digitise inscriptions has found 43 hitherto undocumented ...

Among the historical sites in Okinawa, Japan, Shuri Castle (首里城) stands out as a representative relic. Before 1879, when ...

AMMAN — In “Royal Correspondence in the Hellenistic Period” (published in 1934), American historian Charles Bradford Welles (1901-1969) gathered a collection of inscriptions in Greek and Latin as a ...

Manuscript and Inscription are the sources of historical knowledge. The manuscript is a handwritten or a manually typewritten document, whereas inscription is the writings on relatively hard surfaces ...