Scientists have used a computer program to decipher a written language that is more than three thousand years old. The program automatically translated the ancient written language of Ugaritic within ...

Unlike this Assyrian script, few ancient languages have a written record, which makes reconstructing them extremely difficult A new tool has been developed that can reconstruct long-dead languages.

You say puh-tay-tow, I say puh-tah-tow, but how did our ancestors use language millennia ago? Typically you’d ask a linguist, but manually reconstructing protolanguages — hypothetical early languages ...

A new tool has been developed that can reconstruct long-dead languages. Researchers have created software that can rebuild protolanguages - the ancient tongues from which our modern languages evolved.