Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...

A 1674 use from Charles Cotton’s The Compleat Gamester shows the term in use: “For here you shall be quickly destroy’d under ...

Mixship is a rare, old word for a villainous deed. If mixship seems opaque, that’s because it sprang from an Old English sense of mix that disappeared a long time ago: Mix was a word for dung or ...

These new things have names that are just reused old words modified from even older words. It's almost like building an office tower with weathered stone blocks from an ancient temple. That latest ...

Well, we’ve got a list of nine old English words you can use instead. But you should probably use these words in a DM, since the person on the other end of the message will need to use Google to ...

Do you get some funny looks when you use the word gubbins? Well, it means bits and pieces, or paraphernalia. It comes from an old French word for a bite of food or a piece of something.

With the passage of time, some words are lost to history and others find new meanings. Looking back at the words of Old Polish offers insight into fundamental questions of love, beauty, fear, ...

The library group said Wednesday that it has begun to interpret the columns of text. One of the first words to be translated was the ancient Greek διατροπή, meaning “disgust,” which ...