In the Middle Ages, scarce parchment was often scraped clean and reused, creating layered manuscripts known as palimpsests. Today, linguists…
Long before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, the Kingdom of Aksum produced the Ezana Stone, a trilingual monument inscribed…
While we casually use words like 'Avatar' and 'Karma' in daily English, their journey from the ancient Vedas involves a…
While Etruscan has long been considered a mysterious "language isolate", the discovery of the Lemnos Stele in the Aegean Sea…
While most assume the Latin alphabet evolved directly from Greek, the true story features a vital middleman: the Etruscans. This…
Discover the bizarre linguistic journey of the Liber Linteus, the longest surviving Etruscan text, which was cut into strips and…
Explore the history of the "Silver Bible", a 6th-century masterpiece written in silver and gold ink on purple vellum. We…
Contemporary with the famous Sumerian cuneiform, Proto-Elamite is a 5,000-year-old script from ancient Iran that remains almost entirely undeciphered. This…
The Indus Valley Civilization left behind magnificent ruins and thousands of mysterious seals featuring a "unicorn" and short strings of…
Coptic is often mistaken for a dead language, but it serves as the final, living link to the Ancient Egyptian…
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