In today’s age, confirming a pregnancy is as simple as using a small test kit, a few drops of urine, and waiting just a few minutes. However, long before modern technology, women had their own ...

However, 2023 excavations at the site revealed a surprising discovery —an entirely new language. “The Hittites were uniquely interested in recording rituals in foreign languages,” Daniel Schwemer, ...

In the ruins of the archaeological site at Turkey’s Boğazköy-Hattusha, archaeologists uncovered a new language written on a tablet detailing a foreign ritual.

Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written with mostly Greek letters. This video traces the development of Coptic ...

Youth workshops in Cairo will cover the development of ancient Egyptian scripts, grammar, and royal symbols, with expert-led training starting August 7th at Taiba Academy.

A letter by the Delhi Police to Banga Bhawan at Chanakyapuri, seeking expertise to translate documents from “Bangladeshi” to Hindi and English, triggered a political row, with the West Bengal ...

A 4,000-year-old ancient Egyptian handprint has been discovered on a "soul house" at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. (Joe Giddens, PA Images/Getty Images via CNN Newsource) ...

Our knowledge of ancient literature comes to us through the hands of scribes. The works of Aristotle, Galen and Ptolemy survived only because generations of copyists reproduced them by hand.

One language dies every two weeks, but the oldest languages in the world still thrive in modern times. Some of them are even used by the millions worldwide.

Kings and Generals continues its Ancient Civilizations series with an exploration of how the ancient Egyptians understood race and identity. This episode examines their depictions of foreigners ...

If Egypt is to reclaim its narrative, it must first reclaim Egyptology. According to Egyptian Egyptologist Monica Hanna, author of The Future of Egyptology, this is intrinsically tied to the task of ...

Curators at the National Museum of World Culture in Sweden recently invited a group of Zambian women to help understand the meaning of some ancient artifacts and the communities that used them. Samba ...