Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the ...

Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

A new study reveals fresh clues about Indo-European language origins, tracing an ancestral group's key role in their spread.

The GSMA and Connect Europe, the industry associations representing Europe's telecoms operators, have welcomed the ...

Historical inhabitants of the region that is now Ukraine have had diverse European, Asian and Middle Eastern ancestry for ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the Indo-European family of 400-plus languages, spoken today by more than 40% of the ...

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, identifying the ancestral population that gave rise to more than 400 languages, in ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Researchers contribute a new piece to this puzzle. They analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from archaeological sites across Eurasia ...

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...