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?

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

In this episode of Kings and Generals' historical animated series, we examine the cultural and intellectual legacy of the Byzantine Empire and ask whether it can truly be considered the heir to ...

Even though archaeological and scientific tools have discovered much about these ancient civilizations, including facts about ...

The Greek alphabet, believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is undergoing reevaluation by Leiden University.

For over two thousand years, successive societies forged the civilization of ancient Greece. From the early societies of the ...