The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

When words fail them, creative writers imagine entirely new ones. Author Patti Callahan Henry explains fake languages, ...

A groundbreaking study using advanced radar technology has revealed a vast and intricate underground structure beneath the Pyramids of Giza. Scientists Corrado Malanga from the University of Pisa and ...

In one of those conversations, I learned about a language kerfuffle from a few years ago that took me back to the 1990s, and reminded me of how beautiful and complex nonstandard speech can be.

Archaeologists uncover an ancient burial site with Egyptian, Greek, and Roman graves at Tell Ruwad Iskandar, Egypt. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient ...

The tomb was found within an ancient Egyptian necropolis in Abydos. The burial is located about 23 feet (7 meters) underground and contains a limestone burial chamber covered with mudbrick vaults ...

Their rivalry became a race to achieve what had seemed an impossible feat: the decipherment of the Akkadian language and the ancient Sumerian texts inscribed on clay tablets from the Assyrian and ...

Cadbury Dairy Milk India’s latest ad campaign has struck a chord online, with one video in particular earning widespread praise for its message on language inclusivity. The ad subtly addresses ...

The mummy of a first-century-B.C. individual found in Egypt was not pregnant and did not have cancer, according to a new CT study.

The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and northeastern Algeria — shows that Stone Age populations who lived there more than 8,000 ...

The story so far: Tamil Nadu’s resistance to adopting the three-language policy as mandated under the National Education Policy (NEP, 2020) has brought the age-old language debate back under the ...