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Just as paleontologists study fossils to understand ancient life, we can explore the fossils in our own language. Linguistic taphonomy…
Uncover the story of the Tangut script, a complex writing system that looks like Chinese but is entirely different. Created…
Teaching a computer to read is simple, but what if the text is a 2,000-year-old, fragmented manuscript written in an…
While speakers from Delhi and Lahore can converse with ease, their national languages, Hindi and Urdu, are officially distinct. This…
Forget sterile museum displays of emperors and epic battles. The true, unfiltered history of humanity is scrawled on the walls…
Ever wonder why 'knight' has a 'k' or 'island' has an 's'? The answer isn't that English is illogical, but…
Explore the strange case of "I-da-no", a phantom island that appeared on Japanese maps for decades. This wasn't a sailor's…
What do you get when you combine a question mark and an exclamation point? In the 1960s, frustrated ad man…
Before the world knew them as the authors of *Jane Eyre* and *Wuthering Heights*, the Brontë siblings were rulers of…
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