Songwriters living in ancient Egypt would never have expected the words and melodies they sang would feature on Australian music charts 1,800 years later. But one Australian academic's obsession with ...

American author John A Loud and V A Vidya have taken up the shared task of translating the Thevarams, the 7th-century Shaiva devotional hymns. ‘Senthamizh veru, Chennai Thamizh veru (pure Tamil is ...

A team of researchers has used artificial intelligence to restore a 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn inscribed on cuneiform tablets, according to newly published research. Using machine learning, the ...

Researchers have rediscovered a long-lost Babylonian hymn from 1000 BCE, using artificial intelligence to piece together fragments scattered across the world. The hymn glorifies ancient Babylon’s ...

In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been lost for a thousand years. A paper on this discovery is published in the ...

Founded in Dallas, Texas, the Lutheran Hymn Festival began in the early 1990’s with the idea to promote Lutheran hymnody and to celebrate together with other Lutheran churches in the area. Since then, ...

A new study argues that a 3,000-year-old hymn from the ancient Syrian port city of Ugarit shares remarkable musical patterns with sacred texts from ancient India, suggesting the existence of a global ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

On Tuesday, Oct. 14, Wheaton College presents “The First Hymn Project | Encore Performance,” a film screening by The First Hymn Project Film It will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Armerding Center for ...

Twelve more songs were added to “Hymns — For Home and Church” by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Thursday, Sept. 18, in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. This is the fifth ...

Hermes with his mother Maia. Detail of the side B of an Attic red-figure belly-amphora, ca. 500 BC painted by Nikoxenos. Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Some of the Homeric Hymns are simple ...

Organist Edie Hockspeier plays 18th-19th century Lutheran hymns on the historic Kessler Organ at the Sitka Lutheran Church (KCAW/Cotter) While Sitka is well-renowned for its breathtaking mountains and ...