After careful analysis, Hansen and colleague Christophe Helmke believe they may finally have the answer—and the evidence has ...

Researchers uncover signs of a written Uto-Aztecan language in Teotihuacan’s murals, linking the ancient city’s people to the Aztecs. Discover what they found.

Researchers analyze artifacts and murals from Teotihuacan and find evidence of a language from the Mesoamerican language family known as Uto-Aztecan.

New research suggests the symbols on Teotihuacan's murals offer clues about who lived there and what language they spoke.

The archaeological site at Turkey’s Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Bronze Age Hittite empire, is a hotbed of ancient languages. During excavations of the ruins, archaeologists uncovered ...

More than two millennia ago, Teotihuacan was a thriving metropolis in central Mexico with up to 125,000 inhabitants. The city ...

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

In her humble home on the red soil of the Green Kalahari, 92-year-old Katrina Esau listened intently as her two great-grandchildren practised the ancient N|uu language of South Africa's indigenous ...