Playlist

Talks on ancient languages

Take a step back in time and discover the history of humanity's most fundamental building block.

Murray Gell-Mann

The ancestor of language

Genevieve von Petzinger

Why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over Europe?

Saki Mafundikwa

Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets

Rajesh Rao

A Rosetta Stone for a lost language

Gregory Heyworth

How I'm discovering the secrets of ancient texts

Neil MacGregor

2600 years of history in one object

William Noel

Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes