In the mid 1970s when Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis proposed changing the Greek alphabet to Latin and making the Greek language phonetic, the minister of culture and a Parliament member ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ancient languages to life, such as Ancient Greek and Old English, by demonstrating ...

There are refrains to speak in time together, recitingthe first eight letters of the ancient Greek alphabet, and the names of six famous Greek philosophers. The third verse reflects on philosophy ...

Using trowels and brushes to remove ancient soil at an Early Bronze Age burial site in Umm el-Marra ... But Schwartz, over time, began to explore the possibility that the symbols on the cylinders ...

Who were the ancient Greeks? Who were the ancient Greeks? Discover different ancient Greek cities and find out how they were ruled. How did the Olympic Games begin? Learn how the Olympic Games ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The organized ...

Discoveries of ancient artifacts are relatively common in Greece, often unearthed during construction projects. A headless statue believed to be 2,000 years old has been found inside a black ...

which would later lead to the Phoenician and Greek alphabets. But was this truly the first? In 2004, an excavation at Tell Umm-el Marra, an ancient city about 35 miles east of Aleppo, Syria, unearthed ...

From an animal's tusk, it was worked into a small personal hygiene tool, inscribed with a modest wish, and eventually, ...

But Trump’s coin is nothing new. In a pre-social media world, coins were the ultimate propaganda tool. Rulers used them to ...

This might sound familiar, too. It seems very little has changed from the days of the ancient Greek and Roman empires when it comes to finding time to unwind—and being on holidays, too.

The next transformative step in language development was the invention of writing. Around 3100 BCE, humans began using written symbols to document trade, laws, and ceremony. These early writing ...