British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchased some ancient stones with mysterious inscriptions on them at a flea market in ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be a mystery.

Unfolding the Rich Tapestry of Flower Tattoo Symbolism. Flowers have long held a captivating allure, enchanting us with their ...

International Greek Language Day opens the celebrations for the 2,500-year anniversary since Naples was founded by ancient ...

February 9 has officially been declared as International Greek Language Day and is a day for Greeks and non-Greeks to ...

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

The British Museum should return the ancient treasures to Greece for the sake of art, not nationalism.