Chinese is one of the oldest languages still used today, going back to around 1250 BCE. Today, over a billion people speak it. Greek was spoken around 1450 BCE. From Socrates to Homer, it shaped ...

This article was originally published on Sept. 10, 2021. Until 200 years ago, no one in the modern era could understand Egyptian hieroglyphs; ancient Egyptian was essentially a lost language. The fact ...

and its use as Egypt transitioned to Arabic. From monastic texts to modern-day liturgy, discover how this ancient language still survives in the Coptic Orthodox Church and academic studies.

Egypt’s first interactive platform for learning ancient Egyptian language, the “Hieroglyphs Step by Step” website, has ...

Yet long before that, Arabic scholars had made their own discoveries with these ancient scripts, writes Daisy Dunn in the first of BBC Culture's new series Secret Languages. Jean-François ...

Al Ali described the dictionary's inclusion in the UNESCO Library as more than a scholarly achievement--it is a celebration of centuries of Arabic intellectual heritage. He called the dictionary a ...