Their yearslong research not only established the manuscript as the oldest-known Hebrew book but also unearthed evidence that Jews had lived in Afghanistan — and along the ancient Silk Roads ...
A collection of 1,130 Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts gathered from all parts ... was largely found in that ancient Jewish settlement in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. It includes three private ...
who heads the House of Manuscripts body. "There are writings in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew and Kurdish," he added, noting the texts' "immense cultural diversity". The House of Manuscripts ...
Herschel Hepler was browsing Google Images to practice his paleography — the study of historical writing systems — when he stumbled up ...