Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

We don’t know how language first began. The first writing didn’t occur until around 3200 B.C.E., and we know that spoken language came before that. Some experts contend that it started with hand ...

A new data crowd-sourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language to be a linguistic goldmine and a living bridge to ...

Linguists at Charles University are reconstructing how ancient languages sounded. I discussed the Voices of Dead Languages ...

Romeyka descended from ancient Greek but may die out as it has no written form and is spoken by only a few thousand people An endangered form of Greek that is spoken by only a few thousand people in ...

When Andrea Marcolongo’s book “La Lingua Geniale,” subtitled “9 ragioni per amare il greco” (“Nine Reasons to Love Greek”), came out in 2016, I bought it, in Italian, and took it with me to Greece. I ...

ROME — Archaeologists in the ancient city of Pompeii have discovered a remarkably well-preserved skeleton during excavations of a tomb that also shed light on the cultural life of the city before it ...

The small village is taking steps to protect its ancient Greek language A SMALL village tucked away in the mountains of Southern Italy has held on to its 2,000-year-old Greek traditions. Known as the ...