Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It ...

Scholars believe a language used 5,000 years ago on the Asian steppe was the source of many of the world’s modern tongues.

Was the Phoenician writing system a true alphabet? If not, what should it be called instead, and what was the earliest true ...

Since the late 1980s, archaeologists have been working at the site of the ancient city of Zeugma in eastern Turkey -- founded ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...