Greek theater turned Thebes into an immortal warning tale, but archaeology reveals a very real Bronze Age powerhouse of frescoed workshops, armories, storerooms, and Linear B administration. From ...

Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past?

Researchers are using a very modern tool to transcribe and read hundreds of thousands of medieval manuscripts from the lost ...

The Greek word for "excellence" was mistranslated into Latin as "manliness," and eventually became our word "virtue." ...

Here’s a brain-teaser: the name “Jesus” would have meant absolutely nothing to the man from Nazareth himself. In fact, the letter “J” never existed during his era. For anyone who’s ever wondered how ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

A scholar claims to have deciphered Cryptic B, a mysterious alphabet in the Dead Sea Scrolls long thought impossible to read.

For decades, scholars studying the Dead Sea Scrolls have puzzled over a small group of strange symbols and alphabets that appeared to belong to no known writing system. Now, a researcher says one of ...

“We don't really know at what point Celtic emerged. The earliest extant texts in a Celtic language date from the early sixth century BCE, from northern Italy, a language that modern scholars call ...

The first complete dictionary of the ancient Celtic languages of Britain and Ireland is being made. Ancient Celtic languages ...

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom. Researchers analyzed artifacts tied to Pharaoh Ahmose, gaining rare access to ...

TOKYO, Dec 5 : Japanese household spending unexpectedly fell 3.0 per cent in October from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, worse than the median market forecast for a 1.0 per cent ...