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The language of the world's first alphabet could have been Hebrew. This is according to an archaeologist who has spent the past four years piecing together the letters of the alphabet from ...

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was the father of modern Hebrew. He was also the father of Ittamar Ben-Avi, who had his own ideas. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the late inventor of modern Hebrew, was feted recently in his ...

A new illustrated Hebrew weekly printed in Latin characters has arrived from Tel Aviv, Palestine, where it is published by Ittamar Ben-Avi. The periodical is caled Deror (Liberty), presumably ...

Five lines of ancient script on a shard of pottery could be the oldest example of Hebrew writing ever discovered, an archaeologist in Israel says. The shard was found by a teenage volunteer during a ...

The oldest recorded alphabet may be Hebrew. According to a controversial new study by archaeologist and ancient inscription specialist Douglas Petrovich, Israelites in Egypt took 22 ancient Egyptian ...