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

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo-European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

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

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

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

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

The DNA study was split into two papers since Russian and Ukrainian researchers couldn't co-author, Nature reported.

Learn more about groundbreaking genetic research that reveals a long-lost population and solves a centuries-old linguistic mystery.

A pair of landmark studies has genetically identified the originators of the massive Indo-European family of 400-plus ...

Before the coming of the Roman empire, Celtic languages were spoken across Europe. Present day placenames indicate the extent of their influence: the town of Bala in Turkey and the city of London in ...

“There’s literally hundreds of them in the Indo-European family alone and I could only fit so many on this page, so most sub-1 mil. speaker languages that don’t have the official status ...