The Surprising Slavic Words in English
Did you know that when you talk about 'vampires' or 'robots', you're actually speaking Slavic? English is full of surprising loanwords, and many of them have fascinating stories that trace…
Unlocking the Universe of Languages
Did you know that when you talk about 'vampires' or 'robots', you're actually speaking Slavic? English is full of surprising loanwords, and many of them have fascinating stories that trace…
Venture into the ancient Kingdom of Kush to uncover the secrets of the Meroitic script, a unique writing system that we can read but cannot fully understand. This alphasyllabic script,…
We can read the sounds of the ancient Minoan script, Linear A, but we have no idea what the words mean. Unlike Egyptian hieroglyphs, this Bronze Age code lacks a…
Long before Egyptian hieroglyphs, a mysterious Neolithic culture in the Balkans etched thousands of symbols onto clay. These VinΔa symbols have sparked a fierce debate: are they mere decorations, a…
For anyone with a passion for ancient civilizations and the mysterious languages they spoke, the story of the Phaistos Disk stands as an enigma unlike...