Words from a "lost" language spoken more than 3,000 years ago have been discovered on an ancient clay tablet unearthed in Turkey. Archaeologists discovered the tablet earlier this year during ...

An excavation conducted at Boğazköy-Hattusha, a UNESCO heritage site in north-central Turkey around present-day Bolu or Gerede, unearthed the cuneiform writing. A recent excavation in Turkey has led ...

Photo of Remontnoye (3766–3637 calBCE), with a spiral temple ring. Credit: Natalia Shishlina (co-author of "The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans") Photo of Remontnoye (3766–3637 calBCE), with a ...

On new research by the scholar David Reich. Among the great intellectual developments of the nineteenth century was the advent of the comparative method in the nascent field of linguistics. Among the ...

Long before the gods of Olympus or Rome, ancient Indo-European speakers likely worshiped a sky father known as Dyeus Pater. This reconstructed deity left linguistic traces across Sanskrit, Greek, and ...

The largest-ever study of ancient human DNA, along with the first genome of an individual from the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, reveal in unprecedented detail the shifting ancestry of Central ...

A vast paleogenetic study reveals insights on migration patterns, the expansion of farming and language development from the Caucasus over western Asia and Southern Europe from the early Copper Age ...

Hundreds of years before changing the genetic face of Bronze Age Europeans, herders based in western Asia’s steppe grasslands were already mingling and occasionally mating with nearby farmers in ...

The word “typo” is actually a misnomer. Derived from a phrase that denotes error, it suggests that the typist has made a mistake. In fact, what we call typos are more accurately described as variants.

Researchers are still studying the ancient text of an unknown language, written in cuneiform on a clay tablet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...