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 ...

The countries that start with the letter “Z” are Zimbabwe and Zambia. Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, ...

Pritchard might not strike you as a bookworm. But if you guard him, you might be stricken in the chest to create space for ...

It is not a referendum where every voter has the opportunity to agree or disagree. But instead, it is this Alternative ...

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

Sometimes dreams come true. Carmine Cervone has been nurturing his dream for almost 4 years, ever since he discovered the ...

Archaeologists are using artificial intelligence to investigate ancient artifacts and uncover the story of human culture.