A 'severely endangered' language is classified as only spoken by older generations and in danger of disappearing entirely.

Suddenly, someone yells “Fire!” upon seeing the tongues of flame appear. You’re streaming out of the building, into the street, hollering loudly. Except the cries of your friends aren’t in your ...

The child is not the mere creature of the State.”  With those words, issued a century ago, a unanimous Supreme Court ...

The Indian script or the Brahmi script is a unique form of script known as abugida. But what makes the script, discovered in Ashokan edicts in 250 BC, unique?

E VER SINCE the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepherds in the 1940s, debate has raged over their exact age.

Machine analysis of the handwriting on the manuscripts has recalibrated the dating of over 100 of them, rewriting the history ...

If one factor could be said to have fuelled his intellectual and literary evolution, it was undoubtedly the language of his ...

The celebrated Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o passed away on 28 May. While many tributes and obituaries have been written, we wanted to learn more about Ngũgĩ himself and his thoughts, so we sought o ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls are even older than we thought, according to a new AI analysis by scientists at the University of ...

Many unexpected treasures have turned out to be true storytellers, solving mysteries and illuminating the shadows of the past ...