Archaeologists in China have discovered a 2,700-year-old leather horse saddle. Not only is this maybe the oldest saddle ever discovered, but having been found in a woman’s tomb it contradicts ...

Imagine if professional historians commemorated the American Founding the way they honor colleagues who die. On the flip side, what would obituaries written by historians about their colleagues look ...

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Historical linguists have embarked on an ambitious endeavor to reconstruct the common ancestral language that underpins the tapestry of languages spoken across Europe and South Asia today. From ...

The discourse around Armenian identity is one that oftentimes creates division within the Armenian community, as Western Armenians and Iranian Armenians tend to stand firm in the belief that Armenians ...

A picture of the inscriptions recently found on a rock face in Tajikistan. Researchers have partially deciphered the "unknown Kushan script" — a writing system that has puzzled linguists since it was ...

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Researchers have partially deciphered the "unknown Kushan script" — a writing system that has puzzled linguists since it was first found in the 1950s. The researchers decoded the ancient text using ...

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