These gingerbread tablets are SUPER DELICIOUS and the perfect ancient eat for something modern. The Epic of Gilgamesh is ...

An ancient language with nearly a million undeciphered texts just got a translator that does the job in seconds: A.I. Rachel Shin Updated Wed, Jul 5, 2023, 4:13 PM 6 min read ...

A fascinating stone tablet has been uncovered in Georgia, featuring a mystery language that has left archaeologists and ...

How social media is pushing back against the still common idea that African societies never had a knowledge system.

The bronze hand found at the Irulegi hillfort site in Navarre, Spain. The artifact, which dates to around 2,100 years ago, features an inscription of a rare ancient language, a study has found.

Everything from our numerical system, to our knowledge of astronomy, to our system of the rule of law can be traced back to this very ancient civilization and their writing system.

This places the origin of the artefacts about 500 years before the previously known oldest alphabetic writing. “Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt some ...

Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

There’s a new language in town. Well, actually, it’s ancient, and experts can’t even read it yet. But they’re excited to find out more. Archaeologists discovered a basalt tablet about the ...

We don’t know how language first began. The first writing didn’t occur until around 3200 B.C.E., and we know that spoken language came before that. Some experts contend that it started with hand ...

The languages must have “sprung from some common source,” he wrote. Later generations of linguists determined that Sanskrit and Latin belong to a huge family of so-called Indo-European languages.

Epigraphs written in Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Middle Persian have been uncovered in the ancient capital of Mtskheta, 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) north of the country's current capital, Tbilisi.