AlUla: The AlUla Languages Institute, affiliated with the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), launched the Reviving Ancient Languages Program.The program aims to raise awareness of AlUla’s linguistic ...

Hellanicus of Lesbos, born c. 480 BC in Greece, was one of the earliest, most prolific Greek logographers of the 5th century ...

The Greek alphabet, believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is undergoing reevaluation by Leiden University.

Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier says he has identified seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphs on the 75-foot-tall structure, which ...

A vast library was assembled in Assyria by King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2,700 years ago. The ...

New research led by Associate Professor Willemijn Waal suggests that the Greek alphabet may have originated centuries earlier ...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications for the geological history of the region and some of the U.

It was previously believed that the Levantine DNA of the Phoenicians spread as far as their famous alphabet, which influenced ...

From sailing on the ship that once welcomed Agatha Christie to levels of luxury worthy of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, find ...

By the tech standards of today, USB 2.0 seems very dated—it's not especially fast and it doesn't offer much in the way of ...

A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It ...