When I was in college, I took a graduate-level seminar on the language of the Hittites, a Bronze Age people of Anatolia. I was interested in their highly archaic Indo-European argot, both the oldest ...

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Following his victory in Nubia, Ramses II turned west to subdue the Libyans, who had long troubled Egypt’s western borders. Accompanied by Queen Nefertari, Ramses crushed the Libyan tribes and ...

A new language has been discovered in a UNESCO World Heritage Site being excavated in northern Turkey, according to a news release from the University of Würzburg. The area being excavated is Boğazköy ...

The Hungarian counterfeiting plot reechoed widely in the European press. The Vienna newspapers declare that the scandal means the end of the Horthy regime. The present Hungarian government is to be ...