Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in the UNESCO World Heritage Site Boğazköy-Hattusha in north-central Turkey have discovered a new Indo-European language. This was once the capital of the Hittite Empire, one of the great powers of Western Asia,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Painstaking archaeological exploration is a familiar, often widely admired, method of unearthing history. Less celebrated, but also invaluable, is the piecing together of fragments of ancient languages and analyzing how they changed over thousands of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An international team of linguists and geneticists has achieved a significant breakthrough in our understanding of the origins of Indo-European, a family of languages spoken by nearly half of the world’s population. For over two
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Language can be a time machine—we can learn from ancient texts how our ancestors interacted with the world around them. But can language also teach us something about people whose language has been lost? Image
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -University of Tübingen computational linguist investigates kinships of the Tupí-Guaraní language family using methods from molecular biology. A new study indicates that one of the largest of the indigenous language families in Latin America originated in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – There’s a crisis unfolding in the field of linguistics: Global language experts estimate that, without intervention, about one language will be lost every month for the next 40 years. Credit: Adobe Stock – melita A
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A grammatical problem that has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th century BC has finally been solved by an Indian Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge. Rishi Rajpopat made the breakthrough by decoding a
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The world’s major writing systems have tended to simplify over time, with a notable exception: New research shows that the Chinese writing system has become increasingly complex over the course of its 3000-year history. Chinese
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Understanding when, why, and where our languages play an essential role in the reconstruction of ancient history. Scientists have used a different and effective method tracing the beginnings of human languages by using tree branches,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Abbey Library of St. Gall in Switzerland is home to approximately 160,000 volumes of literary and historical manuscripts dating back to the eighth century, all of which are written by hand, on parchment, in
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Ogham is an ancient writing, of which the earliest examples date back to the 4th and 6th centuries A.D. The language of the inscriptions is Irish, but many were found to have equivalents in Roman
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – No matter which language you use, it is certain the history of your language goes far back in time. Historians think the first language emerged approximately between 200,000 years ago and 60,000 years ago, but
