Persian has a rich history of more than 2,500 years and is still widely spoken today. It is used in Iran, Afghanistan (as ...

Language is one of the most resilient components of culture. Though many languages have disappeared over the course of ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ancient languages to life, such as Ancient Greek and Old English, by demonstrating ...

A 2,000-year-old loom found in a Chinese tomb may hold the key to the origins of computing.

From Latin and Chinese to Tamil and Telugu, discover the top ten most popular writing scripts used around the world ...

The finding of the 13-kilometre (8-mile) stretch was made public on December 9, following a survey launched last year by the ...

The discovery of a major section of the Qin Straight Road sheds new light on how China’s first emperor moved armies across vast distances.

Hundreds of miles from China’s populous coastline, a sharp bend in a remote Himalayan river is set to become the centerpiece of one of the country’s most ambitious – and controversial – infrastructure ...

China will implement a steel export licensing system, the country’s Ministry of Commerce said, in what could be a bid to tame record shipments of the metal flowing out the country. Exporters will have ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

The house cat (Felis catus) slunk into China in the eighth century. But long before that, the ancient Chinese were by no means catless. Modern house cats are descendants of the African wildcat (Felis ...