This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know ...

A new study explains the strange pronunciation of ancient Greek words by tracing stress shifts in suffixes like "-es" and ...

We Americans are caught in the grip of a feverish, frenetic, fervent, frantic and frenzied presidential campaign that demonstrates why in England people stand for election, but in the United States ...

The word "eavesdrop" refers to someone who would stand under drops coming from a roof's eaves to listen to conversations. "Whiskey" comes from the Gaelic for "water of life." "Sarcasm" comes from the ...

Philotimo is a Greek word that is without definition but impacts the world beyond imagination. The word philotimo comes from the Greek root words “filos,” meaning friend, and “timi,” meaning honor.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! In Athens during his final foreign trip as president, President Obama explains ancient Greek's influence on essential qualities of democracy. His ...

The word “symphony” is ultimately from Greek “symphonia,” concord of sounds, harmony, a meld of “syn-,” together (as in synchronize, synthesis) and “phōnẽ,” sound (as in phonetics, telephone). The ...

Join us as we try to figure out how our body parts got their names. Body parts would probably have been one of the first things that ancient peoples gave names to, so not only do we find hundreds of ...

Most people have heard that Christmas is literally the “Christ Mass” of the Christian church, and that Santa Claus takes his name from a corruption of “Saint Nicholas,” the 4th century figure whose ...