Work by an Indian cryptographer on the still-undeciphered Indus Valley script suggests Sanskrit may have been the root ...

This and the next article in this series try to get at the question of how oral language and written language differ. I ...

Technology could overcome the challenges in both variation and quantity of cuneiform tablets.

The ancient world was replete with a myriad of fascinating civilizations, many of which are no longer remembered.

It’s an intriguing title. The Book of Before & After sounds like a novel by Philip Pullman. In fact it is a translation of ...

In 2020, the Elamite-language cuneiform specialist Gian Pietro Basello joined them, enticed by access to new texts. To help prepare their findings, they brought in Gianni Marchesi, an Italian scholar ...

Software developers sometimes encounter a “bug” in a computer program. Not wanting to spend the effort to try to fix the bug, ...

PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at Scarlett St. Clair's upcoming novel 'Terror at the Gates,' out this summer. The book, a feminist retelling of the myth of Lilith, kickstarts the bestselling ...

Poetry reading at Inglewood Junior School, Carlisle, in 1996 (Image: The Cumberland News Photographic) Another ancient poem, The Love Song for Shu-Sin, dating from around 2000 BC, is considered the ...

The Chaldean patriarch of Baghdad, Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, said most of the Iraqi population has been distressed by Pope ...

If deciphered, the script could offer a glimpse into a Bronze Age civilization believed to rival ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Some believe this ... Valley script and its translation into another ...