Researchers used AI to decode a Babylonian text lost for 1,000 years, revealing new details about life and culture in ancient ...

A 2,000-year-old Babylonian hymn pieced together with AI reveals rare details about ancient life, women’s roles, and the beauty of Babylon.

A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing for over 1,000 years. Etched on ...

Propaganda was perhaps less subtle three millennia ago: it’s doubtful a modern singer would describe their nation’s laws as ...

In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been ...

Read the history behind Andrés González’s hymn “Placentero nos es trabajar” — now included in the new hymnbook as “Oh, How ...

His hymns and spiritual leadership were valued in his time, especially in gospel and church music circles. Abbey passed away in 1892, leaving a legacy through his well-loved hymn and his work as a ...

The hymn is most often sung to the stirring tune Cwm Rhondda, written in the early 20th century, which has played a big part in making it one of the most well-loved hymns today. But before it became a ...

Hymn lyrics and melodies from countries such as Malawi, Ghana and Guatemala are among many which were popularly re-interpreted for Western audiences by religious missionaries in the 1960s and 70s.

Since first played during the feast Mass in 1893, Raimundo Barreto ’s over-a-century-old hymn has become the most popular hymnal tribute to Goencho Saib ever — the anthem of the Goan Catholic ...

Several popular hymns were found to have deficiencies in their presentation of Eucharistic doctrine, which was “by far the most common and the most serious” cause of concern regarding the songs.