Europeans living today ... Their arrival on the continent matches the time linguists pinpoint as the initial spread of Indo-European languages, a family of hundreds that includes most languages ...

"They spread from the steppes north of the Black ... The first paper published in Nature, "The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans," focused on the origins of Indo-European languages, draws ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

Using ancient genomes, researchers have mapped the emergence of agriculture in the Middle East 12,000 years ago and its spread to Europe, but the southern Mediterranean has been largely neglected.