Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It ...

By analyzing DNA from ancient skeletons ... “This is the first time we have a genetic picture unifying all Indo-European languages.” The Yamnaya, researchers believe, thanks to their high ...

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global by Laura Spinney is an exploration of how hundreds of languages share a single ...

Hunting the origin of 40 per cent of the languages spoken today is a huge feat, but Laura Spinney's new book makes an ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The origin of Indo-European languages has long been a topic of debate among scholars and scientists. In 2012, a team of evolutionary biologists at the University of ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Every so often, I’m reminded of a truly startling fact.

Analysis of ancient genomes provides the equivalent ... They introduced the Indo-European languages spoken across much of the continent today. They may have even brought the plague.

everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation. Since Greek was understood, the hieroglyphs could then be translated into modern European languages, so the Rosetta stone was the key to ...

What is interesting is that among the European languages, the word “Easter ... commemorating the liberation of the Israelites in ancient Egypt after the Tenth Plague – when the Angel ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Tuesday released a general introduction book and the first volume of comparative etymological dictionary of Tamil and Indo-European languages at the ...