“Chances are, we wouldn’t even know about this crucial culture in human history.” As the debate over the origins of Indo-European languages continues, one thing is clear: The story is far ...

In trying to intertwine several narratives, this book becomes impractical by confusing its variation of themes ...

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

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 ...

They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an early-attested Indo-European language, as well as numerous fragments in other Anatolian languages, alongside Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hurrian texts.