The Etruscans are considered the first great Italian civilization: they lived in the area between present-day Tuscany, Lazio ...

A Latin word for “cleverness” or “skillfulness,” facetiae came to be used to refer to a collection of witty sayings in 16th-century English. But things took a turn for the worse in Victorian slang, ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. Do you have any social obligations? Beth and Neil talk about doing things they don't really want to do and our grammar guru Georgie explains ways to ...

Students at Girton Grammar School in Bendigo are being offered counselling after their classmate was hit by a truck and killed on his way to school on Friday morning. The 15-year-old was struck at the ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on Monday called for Congress to make English the official language of the United States in response to comments made by Bad Bunny, who urged Americans to learn ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Monday called on Congress to make English the official language of America, after singer-songwriter Bad Bunny urged the country to learn Spanish before he ...

Excavations in Tarquinia are bringing the Roman city to light. Credit: Universitat Jaume I In the territory of ancient Etruria, the soil of the Civita di Tarquinia is beginning to yield, centimeter by ...

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Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being implemented in a wide range of disciplines, with the promise of unlocking new possibilities for scientific exploration. However, while the development of ...

It's divisive; it cleaves; it drives some people crazy. The writer Kurt Vonnegut said of the semicolon: It's showy; it's chiefly used to show you've been to college. More than two-thirds of young ...

Venturing into an Etruscan tomb once meant crawling through rubble, breathing dust, and crawling into rooms excavated more than 2,500 years ago. Now, it is possible to do so from a computer, even a ...

Archaeologists excavating a necropolis in Italy have uncovered a spectacular urn, which dates back thousands of years and contains unexpected artifacts, reported Archaeology Magazine. Urn Had a ...