Times New Roman, designed in 1931 by Stanley Morison, directly descends from this rich heritage of Roman and Renaissance ...

Runic inscriptions from the Viking Age still turn up in Sweden 1,000 years after they were written – revealing fascinating ...

Runic inscriptions from the Viking Age still turn up in Sweden 1,000 years after they were written – revealing fascinating ...

For centuries, the Latin alphabet has evolved from its Greek and Etruscan origins to the forms we use today, influencing every aspect of written communication. This journey begins in Ancient Rome, ...

Close your eyes and picture the Mediterranean sun casting a golden glow over honey-coloured ramparts. Breathe in the breeze ...

German archaeologists unearthed a medieval tunnel system beneath a 5,000-year-old Neolithic burial site near Reinstedt. The narrow underground passage, identified as an 'erdstall,' contained late ...

Turkey has been in the news in recent weeks for a role it knows well: peacemaker. As tensions simmer between the United ...

It is a language of extraordinary precision. Sanskrit is one of the oldest recorded languages. It developed a most comprehensive linguistic system very early in history so that it could easily be ...

Runic stones up to 1,000 years old continue to be discovered by chance in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries, shedding ...

How has the pronunciation of Greek, one of the world's oldest languages still spoken today, changed over time?

The discovery prompted an international search to figure out how the ancient headstone made it to New Orleans.

Nearly two thousand years after it was carved, a Roman-era stele came to light not through a formal excavation but during ...