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

Bonobos—our closest living relatives—create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of ...

To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...

The debate over free speech in India is as old as the Republic itself, yet it has taken on a new urgency in recent years. On ...

The planning of Chinese capitals for millennia has centered around the core concept of "Central Axis," which emphasizes the ...

The perseverance of the Irish people in maintaining their language, history and values created a world of oral tradition ...

Artifacts at Kach Kouch reveal stable agricultural settlements in mediterranean africa over 3,000 years ago.

A man called Demetrios was among the first of ancient Greeks to have traveled to England more than two millennia ago.

A new archaeological discovery challenges the long-held belief that the Maghreb was an empty land before the arrival of the Phoenicians ...

While teaching humans about their ancient civilizations may seem like an odd job for artificial intelligence, it has ...

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

Why does my dad want me to eat with a fork? Why do my parents despise finger-eating? How do you eat with your hands if you’ve ...