Jill Kitson: Hello and welcome to Lingua Franca. This week: Mightier than the Sword: Venetia Porter on Arabic script, its beauty and meaning. Dr Venetia Porter is Curator of Islamic Collections at the ...

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A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural battle. By Pragati K.B. Reporting from New Delhi It is a riddle that has ...

Many Christian pastors believe the words they'll preach today, on Easter, will be their most important sermons of the year. Church attendance peaks on Easter, even in an "unchurched" place like Oregon ...

The ancient cities of the Indus Valley belonged to the greatest civilization the world may never know. Since the 1920s, dozens of archaeological expeditions have unearthed traces of a 4,500-year-old ...