This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know ...

Reexamining the Greek alphabet, Herodotus’ story of Phoenician origins may obscure earlier Linear B writing on palm leaves.

In an 1882-84 census conducted by the Ottoman government, Jews accounted for about 48,000, or 56%, of the city’s 85,000 ...

This video examines the decline of Classical Greece after the age of Athens and Alexander, tracing how political domination by Hellenistic kingdoms and Rome brought stability but also cultural ...

With just a few deft moves, the renovation by Stene Alexopoulos preserves this apartment’s unique postwar atmosphere and its ...

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

The community rebounded in 1991 after the breakup of the USSR, when 40,000 Armenians — the third wave of immigrants — ...

Photographer Charlotte Schmitz captured intimate portraits of life and love in the city's diverse Balat neighborhood.

Theodoros Vasilas built a business supported by family and stressing service. After 50 years, the men’s clothier in Englewood ...

A two-month-old Finnish baby died while sleeping between parents in a hotel bed in Crete. Greek authorities are investigating ...

Second volume in the "Parallel Old Testament - TANAKH" series continues Gren's mission to preserve and restore biblical text ...

Henry W. Fowler believed he knew how sentences should read—and his judgments have shaped The New Yorker’s style for a century ...