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

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, ...

Who were these people? And how did their language spread so far and wide? A landmark pair of studies may finally have ...

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

Based on this evidence, the researchers think that the earliest Indo-European languages were spoken by people living in the Caucasus–Lower Volga, who then carried them to Anatolia and to the ...

DNA study cracks centuries-old mystery over origin of languages spoken by half the world - Indo-European languages traced to population living in steppe grasslands 6,500 years ago ...

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

"The discovery of the CLV population as the missing link in the Indo-European story marks a turning point in the 200-years-old quest to reconstruct the origins of the Indo-Europeans and the routes by ...

Indo-European languages (IE), which number over ... the origins of the Indo-Europeans and the routes by which these people spread across Europe and parts of Asia," concludes Pinhasi.