Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know

This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know ...
Greek Reporter

Greek Alphabet’s Phoenician Origins Questioned After 2,500 Years

Reexamining the Greek alphabet, Herodotus’ story of Phoenician origins may obscure earlier Linear B writing on palm leaves.
Greek Reporter

How a Greek Missionary Shaped the Early Gothic Written Language

The Arian bishop Ulfilas devised a new alphabet for the Germanic Gothic language to translate the Bible, largely based on Greek.
Live Science

How do we decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics and other ancient languages?

It took more than 20 years to translate the Rosetta stone. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Some ancient societies had written ...
AINA

When Turkish Was Written in the Greek, Armenian and Assyrian Script

The Syriac-script, trilingual (Syriac-Arabic-Turkish) biweekly Leshono d'Umtho, or Tongue of the Nation. Beirut, 1928. (British Library) For those who have learnt foreign languages, the presence of a ...
The New York Times

Book Review: ‘Greek Lessons,’ by Han Kang

In “Greek Lessons,” Han Kang’s latest novel to be translated into English, a young Korean mother is suddenly unable to speak. By Idra Novey When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...