The origins of the Celtic languages are cloaked in mystery. With desperately few written records, its story survives only in ...

The first complete dictionary of the ancient Celtic languages of Britain and Ireland is being made. Ancient Celtic languages were spoken before the Romans came to Britain, and are where modern Celtic ...

Archaeological evidence makes a compelling case for Neanderthal-created fires 400,000 years ago in Suffolk, UK — plus, how ...

Linguists at Aberystwyth University are assembling what they say will be the first complete dictionary of ancient Celtic.

What is a common phrase bestowed upon tombstones, in condolence messages, and amongst social media posts following the death ...

There are more than half a million words in the Oxford English Dictionary. Some trace their origin as far back as the 11th century. For centuries, linguists and academics have kept careful track of ...

Linguists at Aberystwyth University have launched the first comprehensive dictionary to capture every known word of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland between 325 BC and AD 500. The ...

Indigenous themes have been explored before in short and feature-length films produced in Peru and Ecuador but most of those ...

The Amarna Letters contain records of ancient lords and rulers seeking to establish diplomatic ties with Egyptian pharaohs.

Eastern Ukraine and Southern Russia ...

In the Swiss Alps, a plan to tidy up Romansh—spoken by less than one per cent of the country—set off a decades-long quarrel ...

The Tao Te Ching, written by ancient Chinese philosopher Laozi, stands alongside the Analects of Confucius as a cornerstone ...