Tamil (India): One of the oldest surviving classical languages, Tamil has been in continuous use for over 2,000 years. It originates from the Tamil Nadu region and is spoken widely in South India and ...

A mysterious stone tablet carrying engravings of the Ten Commandments sold for $5 million at auction last week, Sotheby's ...

Discover oldest languages in the world, with some still being spoken today. From Chinese to Tamil, these ancient tongues have ...

One of the longest-surviving classical languages, Tamil is spoken by millions in India, Sri Lanka, and Singapore and has a ...

Georgia's archaeological landscape is shaken by a tablet inscribed with an unknown character, hinting at untold stories from the distant past.

This idiom for an unlearned person is fascinating because idioms typically do not translate well from one language ... our ...

Sotheby's dates the tablet to approximately 1,500 years ago, though some experts have challenged this. The artifact, weighing ...

Sanskrit is considered to be the most ancient language of the world and has been in use for over 5000 years. Tamil language ...

A remarkable 13th-century sculpture stands in the cloister of Santo Domingo de Silos, in the Spanish countryside halfway between Burgos and Soria. The monastery is most widely known for its recordings ...

An inscribed marble slab featuring the Ten Commandments sold for $5.04 million at Sotheby’s auction house in New York. The stone — written in archaic Samaritan Hebrew script — is the oldest known text ...

A silver amulet found next to a skeleton in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of ...

A stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sold for over $5 million at auction to an anonymous buyer who plans to ...