The Suda, the massive tome written by a Byzantine scholar around the year 1100, was one of the world's first encyclopedias and lexicons.

The Vlachs are an ethnic group in Greece that speak a Romance language called "Vlachika," or Aromanian, and have their own ...

You learn Coptic, which is the ancient Egyptian language written in the Greek alphabet. Now there are great debates about how to read these texts. But for the laymen, these debates are really ...

Greek language and literature examines the ancient Greek language, literature and culture, as well as research focused on them and their residual effects. Classical Greek language and literature have ...

It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation ... The phonetic hieroglyph alphabet is the closest version to our modern ...

Set up by the singer/songwriter/author Eleni Elefterias at Stanmore, before moving to Dulwich Hill, the bookshop contained ...

The Cia-Cia language has been passed down orally for centuries. Now the tribe’s children are learning to write it in Hangul, ...

In the half-dark of a third-floor office, Danielle Levy lifted a clay tablet out of its box. Carefully examining it with ...

A research team led by Petra M. Goedegebuure from the University of Chicago has presented a groundbreaking study on the word ...

Reading ancient literature ... of texts in Greek or Latin, while continuing to work on mastery of grammar and vocabulary. Courses at the 300 or 400 level generally enroll up to twenty students.

and the ancient Greek language. There’s no telling who came out on top in the legal case memorialized on the tablet — the curser or the cursed — but belief in the efficacy of curses was strong enough ...