February 2025 marks the release of Ilaria Palomba's new book, Purgatorio (Alter Ego Edizioni). The Apulian writer, now a ...

Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

DNA study cracks centuries-old mystery over origin of languages spoken by half the world - Indo-European languages traced to population living in steppe grasslands 6,500 years ago ...

uniquely preserving linguistic archaisms that were lost in all other IE branches. Previous studies had not found steppe ancestry among the Hittites because, the new paper argues, the Anatolian ...

LUKE’s version of Jesus’s Beatitudes (or “blessings”) challenges the more famous version recorded in Matthew (5.1-11).

The dialog was secondary and not as successful. Often inaudible, and when audible, lightly grating, it consisted of fragmentary, portentous archaisms uttered by the queen and her supplicants. It ...