The most advanced way that we communicate, through the written word, is something that animals simply can’t do at all. This ...

The Indus Valley script has baffled experts for over a century, its meaning lost to time. Now, the Indian government is ...

The world’s oldest map unlocks secrets from 3,000 years ago revealing how our ancestors understood the world. The Babylonian ...

whose cuneiform script was deciphered in the early nineteenth century – but no bilingual inscriptions have been unearthed thus far. — Archaeologists, epigraphists, linguists, historians, and ...

Peter Smith is a writer specializing in stories about food, science and technology. Back in 1916, the now-famous Nathan's hot-dogs of New York City did not sell on name alone The Baltic herring ...