A mysterious lost language spoken 8,000 years ago in Eurasia is the hidden ancestor linking Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...

A new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language to be a linguistic goldmine and a living bridge to ...

A new study explains the strange pronunciation of ancient Greek words by tracing stress shifts in suffixes like "-es" and ...

There is no assessment more objective than a written exam in an ancient language. Such a test measures recall of and facility with a language that exists only on the printed page, one governed by a ...

Over the past century, archaeologists have uncovered more than 1,600 Proto-Elamite inscriptions, but only about 43 in Linear Elamite, scattered widely across Iran. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...

Several ancient languages, including Tamil, Sanskrit, and Mandarin Chinese, have thrived for millennia, offering insights into past civilizations. These languages, some over 5,000 years old, continue ...

Gillian Brockett and Caitlin O'Brien are outdoors skipping around a little round table, bellowing the first lines of "The Iliad" to all who will listen. Homer's ancient words come out in a lilting ...