OF all the great changes in thought which the present century has witnessed, perhaps none is more striking than that which has occurred in our methods of studying the beginnings of human culture. The ...

Poetic Mexican film raises philosophical questions about what is lost when a language — and by extension, our elders’ memory — is allowed to fade away unpreserved. At the outset of Mexican director ...

What languages sounded like before a few thousand years ago is one of the great unsolvable mysteries of modern science. Now two linguists have come up with a bold hypothesis: the speakers of the ...