It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur ( Akkadian: ; Aramaic: ; Hebrew: ; Arabic: ).

Assyria continued to exist as a geopolitical entity until the Arab-Islamic conquest in the mid 7th century AD, and Assyrian identity, personal names and both spoken and written evolutions of Mesopotamian Aramaic ( which still contain many Akkadian loan words ) have survived among the Assyrian people from ancient times to this day.

It is an ancient spell in Aramaic, and it is the original of abracadabra, which means ' let the thing be destroyed.

The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox receive several additional books in to their canons based upon their presence in manuscripts of the ancient translation of the Old Testament in to Greek, the Septuagint ( although some of these books, such as Sirach and Tobit, are now known to be extant in Hebrew or Aramaic originals, being found amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls ).

), while generally using the Septuagint and Vulgate, now supplemented by the ancient Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts, as the textual basis for the deuterocanonical books.

* Genesis in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Greek, Latin, and English – The critical text of the Book of Genesis in Hebrew with ancient versions ( Masoretic, Samaritan Pentateuch, Samaritan Targum, Targum Onkelos, Peshitta, Septuagint, Vetus Latina, Vulgate, Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion ) and English translation for each version in parallel.

It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur ( Akkadian: ; Aramaic: ; Hebrew: ; Arabic: ).

Other ancient texts consulted were the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion, the Latin Vulgate, the Syriac Peshitta, the Aramaic Targum, and for the Psalms the Juxta Hebraica of Jerome.

The first language of European Jews may have been Aramaic, the vernacular of the Jews in Roman-era Judea and ancient and early medieval Mesopotamia.

Though it is not the first Bible to be published by the group, it is their first original translation of ancient Classical Hebrew, Koine Greek, and Old Aramaic biblical texts.

These people exist today as the modern Assyrians who are wholly Eastern Rite Christian but retain a distinct Mesopotamian language, Neo Aramaic ( which descends from the Aramaic first spoken in Mesopotamia in 1200 BCE and still retains hundreds of Akkadian loan words ) and identity and the naming of children with ancient names such as Ashur, Shamash, Semiramis, Lamassu, Ninus, Lilitu / Lilith, Sargon, Hadad etc.

Uruk ( Cuneiform: ,< sup > URU </ sup > UNUG ; Sumerian: Unug ; Akkadian: Uruk ; Aramaic: Erech ; Hebrew: Erech ; Greek:, ;, ) was an ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia, situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates river, on the ancient dry former channel of the Euphrates River, some 30 km east of modern As-Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq.

As a Hebrew scholar he made a special study of the history of the Hebrew text, which led him to the conclusion that the vowel points and accents are not an original part of the Hebrew language, but had been inserted by the Massorete Jews of Tiberias, no earlier than the 5th century ; he also concluded that the primitive Hebrew characters are those now known as the Samaritan, while the square characters are Aramaic and were substituted for the more ancient at the time of the captivity.

The " dragon " ( תלי tli, perhaps meaning " curled one " as a coiled serpent ) which plays such an important part in the astrology of the book, is probably an ancient Semitic figure ; at all events its name is not Arabic, as scholars have hitherto assumed, but either Aramaic or possibly a Babylonian loan-word.

A number of ancient Aramaic texts dating back to the 2nd century CE were uncovered in Elymais.

With most people speaking only Aramaic and not understanding Hebrew, the Targums were created to allow the common person to understand the Torah as it was read in ancient synagogues.

There are also several ancient translations, most important of which are in the Syriac dialect of Aramaic ( including the Peshitta and the Diatessaron gospel harmony ), in the Ethiopian language of Ge ' ez, and in Latin ( both the Vetus Latina and the Vulgate ).

Their ancient Semitic language is known as Aramaic ( or " Syriac " after the time of Christ since the majority of people who spoke this language belonged to the province of " Syria ").

The majority of ancient Bible translations also follow the majority view, with only the Aramaic Curetonian Gospels offering significant testimony to the minority view.

The Baptism is still called by the Aramaic term Mamodisa among Saint Thomas Christians and follows many of the ancient rituals of the ceremony.

In modern numerological terminology, arithmancy ( a shortened form of Greek ἀριθμομαντεία divination by numbers ) is a simplified version of ancient Greek Isopsephy or Hebrew / Aramaic Gematria, as adapted to the Latin alphabet.

Simeon bar Yochai, ( Aramaic: רבן שמעון בר יוחאי, Rabban Shimon bar Yochai ), also known by his acronym Rashbi, was a famous 1st-century tannaic sage in ancient Israel, active after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.

Some time later the missing part of the relic was found and the complete inscription, together with other new evidence, fully corroborated the ancient priest's information.

Of its coins the most ancient bear the Phoenician inscription abdrt with the head of Melkart and a tunny-fish ; those of Tiberius ( who seems to have made the place a colonia ) show the chief temple of the town with two tunny-fish erect in the form of columns.

The name Barcelona comes from the ancient Iberian Phoenician Barkeno, attested in an ancient coin inscription in Iberian script as Barkeno in Levantine Iberian script, in Ancient Greek sources as, Barkinṓn ; and in Latin as Barcino, Barcilonum and Barceno.

The Younger Futhark inscription on the stone bears a commonly seen memorial dedication, but is followed by an encoded runic sequence that has been described as " mysterious ," and " an interesting magic formula which is known from all over the ancient Norse world.

Further evidence concerns an inscription in Ekron to PYGN or PYTN, which some have suggested refers to " Potnia ", the title given to an ancient Mycenaean goddess.

According to the legendarium recorded in the 12th-century Gesta Treverorum, the city was founded by an eponymous otherwise unrecorded Trebeta, an Assyrian prince, placing the city's founding legend centuries before and independently of ancient Rome: a medieval inscription on the facade of the Red House in Trier market,

Another ancient source is Diogenes of Oenoanda, who composed a large inscription at Oenoanda in Lycia.

The most complete ancient Egyptian account of the myth is the Great Hymn to Osiris, an inscription from the Eighteenth Dynasty ( c. 1550 – 1292 BC ) that gives the general outline of the entire story but includes little detail.

* Saddam Hussein considered himself to be the reincarnation of Nebuchadnezzar and had the inscription " To King Nebuchadnezzar in the reign of Saddam Hussein " inscribed on bricks inserted into the walls of the ancient city of Babylon during a reconstruction project he initiated ; he named one of his Republican Guards divisions after Nebuchadnezzar.

Ancient Persian bas-relief – Apadana or Behistun inscription, ancient Greek pottery, archaeological findings from Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, China et al.

; March 2005: Allah inscription: The word " Allah ", in approximately a foot-tall Arabic script, was found newly carved into the ancient stones, an act viewed by Jews as vandalism.

The ancient inscription reads " This is the tomb of ...

The inscription matar kubileya at a Phrygian rock-cut shrine, dated to the first half of the 6th century BCE, is usually read as " Mother of the mountain ", a reading supported by ancient Classical sources, and consistent with Cybele as any of several similar tutelary goddesses, each known as " mother " and associated with specific Anatolian mountains or other localities ; a goddess " born from stone ".

* Xanthus stele or Xanthian Obelisk, a stele bearing an inscription currently believed to be trilingual, in the ancient Lycian city of Xanthos

An inscription discovered at Milas, the ancient Mylasa, details the punishment of certain conspirators who had made an attempt upon his life at a festival in a temple at Labranda in 353.

An inscription found on the site of the former ancient city shows a considerable Jewish population in early Byzantine times.

In this rendering, Cross has restored the missing top of the tablet ( estimated at two lines ) based on the content of the rest of the inscription, as referring to a battle that has been fought and won by general Milkaton, son of Shubna, against the Sardinians at the site of, surely Tarshish ; Cross conjectures that Tarshish here " is most easily understood as the name of a refinery town in Sardinia, presumably Nora or an ancient site nearby.

Some consider this ancient inscription as a legend at the time it was inscribed.

The traditional view based on the majority of ancient sources, e. g., Darius the Great's Behistun inscription, as well as Herodotus, Justin, and Ctesias, although there are minor differences between them.

In Carthage a magnificent basilica was afterwards erected over the tomb of the martyrs, the Basilica Maiorum, where an ancient inscription bearing the names of Perpetua and Felicitas has been found.

The house he lived in bears an inscription in ancient Greek that reads: “ With good luck.

Taylor also published ( under the title of Marmor Sandvicense ) a commentary on the inscription on an ancient marble brought from Greece by Lord Sandwich, containing particulars of the receipts and expenditure of the Athenian magistrates appointed to celebrate the festival of Apollo at Delos in 374 BC.

Coin of Pyrrhus, Epirus ( ancient state ) | Kingdom of Epirus ( inscription in Greek language | Greek: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΥΡΡΟΥ-Basileōs Pyrrou, " belonging to King Pyrrhus ").