Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Starting in the the 1950s, archaeologists conducting excavations in central Asia have discovered several dozen inscriptions in a ...

For decades, a handful of Dead Sea fragments written in an unknown alphabet sat in scholarly limbo, legible in shape but mute in meaning. Now a researcher has finally cracked that hidden script, ...

BEIJING (AP) — Chen Yulu never thought her home province of Hunan had any culture that she would be proud of, much less become an ambassador of. But these days, the 23-year-old is a self-proclaimed ...

Looking at photos of a 2,400-year-old tablet recently found in Spain, a linguistic expert thought he recognized a symbol carved into the gray stone. It turned out to be a mysterious ancient alphabet.

Most of the world’s 7,000 languages build words by matching sounds to letters. Yet Chinese takes a different route - one that ...