The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is offering a $1 million bounty to experts who can successfully interpret the Indus Valley script.

Before the current written scripts, texts, and linguistic manuscripts, there were various oldest writing systems emerging ...

One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...

Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

Scientists Unearth Ancient Royal Tomb Harboring Remains of 18 Horses, Sheds Light on Scythian Funeral Ritual Researchers ...

The Pamukkale travertines are limestone slopes and thermal water pools that have attracted visitors since before the days of ...

No other classic text has left such a mark on how we tell stories, create theatre, and structure film. But what does it ...

By the 16th century, the term “act of God” had entered the English lexicon, meaning any natural event or disaster that was seen as both beyond human understanding (or prediction) and a direct ...

A specialist in Roman social and cultural history, political theory and law, Champlin joined Princeton’s faculty in 1976 and ...

One of the few women in Ancient Greek academe, Hypatia of Alexandria was a renowned philosopher and mathematician — and she was killed because of it. People primarily remember Hypatia of Alexandria, ...

Mr. Simitis imposed financial measures to prepare for Greece’s entry into the eurozone and laid the groundwork for the Olympic Games’ return to Athens. By Alan Cowell Costas Simitis, a former ...

They relied on this neural network to reveal text attributed to an ancient Greek philosophical work. “We will have 400 columns of Greek text to read,” said Nicolardi, noting the challenge for ...