Silent letters from the past
Despite some high-profile success stories, deciphering ancient scripts is a long and arduous process in which even the most advanced technology is of only limited use. Andrew Robinson reports. Fifty...
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A tale of a language lost and then found
A South African land claim led to a search for a native tongue not heard for 30 years. Chris Bunting picks up the trail. In 1974, the N|u language was declared extinct. It was the last of the ancient...
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Stability, strength and Stalin's fellow-travellers
Rethinking European Order - The Politics of the Euro-Zone - European Integration
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Old sexpot's past will certainly open your eyes
The History of Greek Vases
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Big plans for our blueprint
Our Postmodern Future - Redesigning Humans
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A nation gripped by triffids, traffic tiaras and TV
Reading the Decades
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Moral diversions block route
World Politics
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Skirmish in a war of the worlds
Tocqueville between Two Worlds
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Hunt for elusive civil society
Civil Society
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Mad monk's new creed
Keith Joseph
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Forget reform, make votes count
The Trouble with Government - Breaking the Deadlock
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a science-fiction writer who called his work "logical fantasy": "When I was quite small I would...
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The poverty of development studies without the politics
States of Development
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Still democratic in spite of itself
The Success of India's Democracy - Indira Gandhi, the 'Emergency' and Indian Democracy
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Learning for life
The article on the appointment of Bob Galliers of the London School of Economics at Bentley College near Boston ("US college aims for UK overhaul", THES , May 17) suggests Bentley will "distinguish...