More than 1,800 years ago, the thousands of pieces formed colorful frescoes that covered the walls of a luxurious villa in ...

The discovery was made at a London development site which had already yielded stunning mosaics and a rare Roman mausoleum.

“It was like assembling the world’s most difficult jigsaw puzzle,” said Han Li, the lead specialist at the Museum of London ...

Tracing the Evolution of an Ancient Script The Greek alphabet is one of the most enduring and influential writing systems in human history. From its origins in the 8th century BCE, it laid the ...

Greek inscription inside Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Credit: Flickr / George Terezakis CC BY 2.0 The Latin alphabet is undoubtedly the world’s most recognizable form of written language, whose ...

A Google Translate screenshot correctly shows that the name of the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, when written as “A stra ze neca,” means “a road to death” in Latin. We reached out to ...

An important figure in the story pertaining to the origin of the Latin alphabet is Evander of Pallantium. According to Greek and Roman mythology, one of the founding figures in Rome’s history was a ...

Today, the Greek alphabet serves as a source of international symbols in maths, science and engineering. For example, lowercase alpha (α) can represent an angle while pi (π) represents the ratio ...

Phoenician city-states shared languages — recorded with an alphabet that was a precursor to Greek and Latin letters — religious practices and maritime trading economies.

Language is a means of communication as well as a vehicle for culture, history and identity. The histories of Latin, Sanskrit and Greek show how languages can develop along divergent paths. Latin and ...

The Greek alphabet gave rise to the Latin, Cyrillic, Gothic and various other alphabets. The Greek alphabet has 24 letters Download mp3 - right click and choose 'save target as' ...

The language’s supposed superiority extended to ogham, which the Auraicept included alongside the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin alphabets. It was claimed that ogham was the best and most exact of the ...