Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

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

There were 29 new additions to the UK library this week, including Nonnas, Blood of Zeus, and Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.

Author Laura Spinney weighs in on the linguistic expansion of Indo-European languages thousands of years ago, examining the ...

Found at the Dodona oracle site in Epirus, more than 4,000 lead tablets reveal everyday concerns, from love and illness to ...

Zeus, the king of the Olympian Gods, transformed into a white bull to abduct Europa, the princess who gave her name to the ...