For more than a decade, archaeologists have struggled to decipher an inscription carved into the neck of a broken jar that dates back to King Solomon's reign in ancient Israel. Now, researchers have ...

Rock engravings are offering surprising clues about the Arabian Peninsula’s earliest cultures Ancient inscriptions on rocks all around the Arabian Peninsula are helping paint a picture of the earliest ...

MAKKAH: More than 13 types of inscriptions from ancient civilizations, mostly written in Arabic, have been found the Arabian Peninsula, experts have revealed. The best known inscriptions are rock ...

Boat in the sea at Mahabalipuram beach, Tamil Nadu, India (Credit: Sandipan Dutta/Alamy) Coastal towns across southern India still reveal how medieval travellers once used the power of language to ...

Recognising the importance of the Arabs and their role in the history of the modern world has been gradually erased from everyday discourse Watching a documentary on Andalusia under Arab rule recently ...

BBC World Service’s Arabic TV channel, which is scheduled to go on air this autumn, has invested in Autoscript and IBIS systems. The IBIS playout applications have been chosen for 24-hour news ...