Incantations were not only meant to ward off demons, but also to calm patients. A look into medical history reveals what lies ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Two men caught inscribing positive words and their names on rocks at 35 historical sites on China’s Mount Tai in a single day claim they did so to “change their fate”. The case gained national ...

Language is like a living organism, it changes, grow, and evolves over time. And yet, a few words from times long past have been able to continue being a part of our everyday language, testifying that ...

Meaning “listen attentively,” from Old English heorcnian. Used in phrases like “Hark! The herald angels sing,” often in literature, poetry, and historical speech. Meaning “enemy or opponent,” from Old ...

This post is Part 2 of a series. Read Part 1 here. Although speech and language ability is relatively new in our evolutionary history—our ape cousins can’t speak—it may be built on a foundation that ...

The early Greek alphabet was painted on the body of an Attic black-figure cup. Credit: flickr / Dan Diffendale CC BY-SA 2.0 A recent study from The Ohio State University offers a breakthrough ...

For thousands of years, a unique click language called Hadzane has echoed across the plains of northern Tanzania. It is the language of the Hadzabe, one of the world's last remaining hunter-gatherer ...

Kim Jong Un’s New Bizarre Ruling: When we talk about North Korea, the picture that comes to mind is of people who have been cut off from the world and are forced to live under the government’s strict ...

For most of the world, ice cream is a simple treat with a universal name. But in North Korea, it has now become a matter of politics. Leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly banned the use of the word “ice ...

Pyongyang: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly banned the use of words such as "hamburger", "ice cream", and "karaoke" for "being too Western", as part of ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly banned the words “ice cream”, “hamburger”, and “karaoke”, labelling them as foreign terms influenced by Western culture. Hamburger will be now called ...