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Ancient Roman Graffiti

by Richard Kazandjian December 22, 2011 Entertainment

5 Funny Inscriptions You might think of graffiti as a modern urban problem, but rest assured, writing on walls is an ancient art. Our forebears liked to make their mark on a place just as much as we do. Perhaps even more so, considering that they often had to chip away at stone walls to [...]

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Japanese Came to Japan With Agriculture, Researchers Say

by Caroline Mikolajczyk May 10, 2011 History

Researchers at the University of Tokyo completed an analysis of the different dialects of the Japanese language and how they evolved.

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Biologist May Have Discovered the Origin of Language

by Caroline Mikolajczyk April 20, 2011 History

Professional linguists classify languages based on how closely they are related, and try to uncover how ancient languages evolved and branched off to form new languages over time.

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Rare Greek Dialect Survives In Turkey

by Richard Brooks January 11, 2011 History

Greek has the longest written history of any of the Indo-European languages, but that doesn’t mean that today’s Greek sounds like the Greek language of Plato and Socrates. Find out more!

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The Legend behind the Candy Canes

by Caroline Mikolajczyk December 22, 2010 History

Discover where candy canes come from and how they are made!

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Researchers Make Recordings of Ancient Babylonian Poems Available Online

by Richard Brooks October 25, 2010 History

Akkadian, the language of the Babylonians died out 2,000 years ago but we still have a surprising amount of cuneiform writing from ancient Babylon preserved on clay and stone tablets.Check the story out!

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Fragments of a Lost Language Discovered in Peru

by Charlie Jolly October 2, 2010 History

A team of archaeologists working in Peru just announced a major discovery: written fragments of a 400-year old indigenous language that has never been seen before.

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Language Demonstrates Link Between North America and Asia

by Richard Brooks July 9, 2010 History

Archaeologists have long believed that humans migrated to North America from Asia, walking across a land bridge over what is now the Bering Strait. Now, Western Washington University linguistics professor Edward Vajda has demonstrated a linguistic connection as well.

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