Perhaps the most well-known of the lost Greek letters is Digamma. Shaped like an F or a modern-day gamma with an extra stem, Digamma represented the “w” sound. Its use was widespread in early dialects ...

The City of Boulder thinks of land, even a small piece of it laid bare by razing a small portion of our heritage, in terms of ...

Deep in the swamps of the American Southeast stands a quiet giant: the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). These majestic ...

Linguistics, working on sound shifts, has given us about 1,600 words in Proto-Indo-European, which no one has spoken in over ...

The Suda, the massive tome written by a Byzantine scholar around the year 1100, was one of the world's first encyclopedias ...

The War of the Heavenly Horses set the stage for an epic confrontation between the ancient Greeks of the Bactrian Kingdom and ...

James Romm’s book is an intellectual thriller, showing how the ancient Greek thinker came to write “The Republic,” his ...

Pritchard might not strike you as a bookworm. But if you guard him, you might be stricken in the chest to create space for his shot, inflected by what he read.

For the first time ever, biologists successfully rescued, rehabilitated, and reintroduced a Yangtze finless porpoise back ...

A museum is like an iceberg. Most of it is out of sight. Most big collections have only a fraction of their items on display, ...

So, uh. You may have heard. The termination date for the Rivers of America and all of its charming attractions has been set ...