All languages likely come from a single original one, and early people began spreading around the world 135,000 years ago.

Tens of thousands of cuneiform tablets are sitting around, just waiting to be translated. It's not an easy job; the ancient language is based on wedge-shaped pictograms and includes more than 1,000 ...

"The discovery of the Hand of Irulegi has opened a new horizon to unravel the history behind the most enigmatic language still alive in Europe: the Basque language." Most modern European languages — ...

The new study traced this language group to an ancient population that lived in ... European story marks a turning point in the 200-years-old quest to reconstruct the origins of the Indo-Europeans ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

Some of the most famous decipherments of other ancient scripts were made largely ... treating the unknown Indus script as a cipher encoding a known language (for which he had to first determine ...

Reading ancient literature in its original language will give you a deeper understanding of influential ancient texts, and basic insights into the structure of modern languages. Demonstrated ...

Anyone interested in studying ancient languages while at BC should consult both their academic advisor and a faculty member teaching the language as soon as possible in order to plan the most ...

The old text isn’t entirely gone ... “We have identified erased texts in 10 languages that date from the fifth to the 12th centuries,” says Michael Phelps, the director of the recovery ...