The Iranology Foundation hosted a ceremony on Wednesday evening to mark Ferdowsi Day, gathering scholars, cultural experts, ...

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 ...

But if there wasn't a language in common, ancient people would have turned to an interpreter. Translation in ancient societies wasn’t as formal as it is today, and interpreters who could speak Greek, ...

it took on the language’s role as the main linguistic medium of the Iranian peoples, first under the Persian empires of the Ancient World, such as the Achaemenid, and then as the lingua-franca ...

Credit: Journal of Ancient History and Archeology The Bashplemi inscription’s mystery language also appears to share similarities with possibly over 20 writing systems so far, although the ...

Languages: English, Spanish A tablet bearing a previously unknown ancient script has been discovered in the Caucasus region, a study has reported. The book-sized tablet—made of basalt ...

A genetic analysis of dozens of ancient skeletons ... In East Africa, Persian customs never came to dominate. Instead, most foreign influences — language, architecture, fashion, arts — were ...