Instead of transitioning between Latin and English, spoken Latin keeps the cognition all in one language. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via Getty Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art under ...

If you ever sat through Latin lessons in school, you might be inclined to believe there's no such thing as an "easy way" to learn the ancient language. Recently translated ancient texts would seem to ...

Centuries after the Roman Empire left its mark across, many of its stories still sit locked inside damaged stone and pottery. In recent years, researchers faced the daunting problem of reading ancient ...

It's called the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. And it's considered "the most authoritative dictionary of ancient Latin." Researchers in Germany have spent the last 125 years working on the project. By ...

Around 1,500 Latin inscriptions are discovered every year, offering an invaluable view into the daily life of ancient Romans -- and posing a daunting challenge for the historians tasked with ...

A mosaic outside a home in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii reading: "Beware of the dog" - Copyright AFP Jim WATSON A mosaic outside a home in the ancient Roman city ...

Sometime around the 7th century, a grammarian got fed up and started collecting all the annoying mistakes that people kept making in Latin. He wrote them up in the Appendix Probi, a straightforward ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Less than a year ago, Aadita Menghani knew nothing about Latin. "I had never even heard of it before," she said. But the 13-year-old ...

Friends, Romans and Latin lovers — lend the Vatican your ears. Vatican Radio is starting its first regular news bulletin in the language of Caesar and Cicero. Called "Hebdomada Papae, Notitiae ...

Pope Benedict tweeted in Latin for the first time on Sunday, taking his mission to revive the Catholic Church's official language to a very 21st-century medium. "Unitati christifidelium integre ...