Andrey Kurkov’s crime thrillers provide timely lessons for anyone living under an oppressive regime. A relatively young ...

Seven major global pipelines are identified as critical geopolitical tripwires in 2025, with potential disruptions that could ...

How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

Jane Stylianou, Chair of the Cyprus Rare Birds Committee, reports on a migration season for the ages on the Mediterranean ...

With their jagged pinnacles, saw-toothed peaks and bare rock walls, the Dolomites offer some of the most dramatic scenery of ...

History shows that linguistics evolve in unpredictable ways — and that the supremacy of English is not guaranteed.

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The Italic languages had already diverged into Latin, Oscan, Umbrian and possibly Venetic – a language which, as its name ...

Lake Alakol lies in a basin about 1,000 miles wide, fed by rivers and cut off from oceans. Sun evaporates the water, salt and ...

The explosion of Proto-Indo-European from its origins in Eastern Ukraine—the subject of science journalist Laura Spinney’s beguiling and revelatory new book, Proto: How One Ancient Language Went ...

The ceremony’s greatest gong has been awarded to some deserving – and some very odd – winners down the years. Here’s all you need to know ...

“Everyone understands now,” Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna told me, “that there is no situation anymore where ...