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

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

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

Over 5,300 years ago, ancient herders known as the Yamna people emerged from the steppes of what is now Ukraine, going on to ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

DNA study cracks centuries-old mystery over origin of languages spoken by half the world - Indo-European languages traced to ...