People have always loved a good mystery, and there’s something particularly intriguing about texts we just can’t understand. Despite our modern technology and centuries of scholarly effort, some ...

Recent findings from ancient Korean texts provide fascinating evidence of early compass use. This discovery sheds new light on the development of navigation tools throughout human history and ...

Meteorology has never been as precise as it is today—but how can scientists learn about past weather events? In addition to environmental evidence such as ice cores and sediments, historical records ...

The development of the Historical Dictionary for Modern Irish is specified as an objective in the government's 20 Year Strategy for Irish, and with the assistance of the department the RIA has already ...

To study the cultures of the past, historians rely on closely reading old texts. Did the people living along the Yellow River more than 2,000 years ago think they should stick close to their family, ...