In a dimly lit monastic scriptorium in13th-century Constantinople, a group of scribes unknowingly scrubbed away what could ...

Maryna now communicates with the world through eye movements that control a computer cursor. She has written a book about ...

In 1949, a philologist and Harvard lecturer by the name of George Kingsley Zipf published a 573-page treatise in which he ...

Each time I come across phrases like “underscores the importance of”, “I am particularly drawn”, or “delve into the intricacies”, I become outright suspicious. Even if I cannot prove with certainty ...

Third Part of ANNALS OF CRIME about Dale Maple, the first American soldier ever to be convicted of treason. Article deals mainly with Maple's assignment of the 620the Enginee General Service Company, ...

WE have already had occasion to draw attention to the extremely good work which is being done by the United States Geographical and Geological Surrey, as well as to the liberal construction put upon ...

Russian is one of the five most widely spoken languages in the world, is widely used in international forums and plays an important role in the development of scientific, cultural, and educational ...

The work of a historian who collected thousands of words of a now mostly forgotten dialect has been immortalised on the small screen. Students from The University of Northampton created short videos ...

“The Birth of Christ is the Eucatastrophe of Man’s history.” A key element of Tolkien’s thought on Christ’s life and death as fairy story was detailed in his lecture and essay, “On Fairy Stories.” ...

The Central Asiatic Journal has been published since 1955, focusing on the linguistic, cultural and historical heritage of Central Asia and historically contingent regions. Our global pool of authors ...

Before the invention of alphabets, literacy was the purview of Egyptian and Mesopotamian scribes trained in complex writing systems that could take years to master. Proto-Sinaitic script, which uses a ...