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

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

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

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

Two new papers, published in the journal Nature, by scientists from Russia and Ukraine, further solidify this claim about the origin of the Indo-European family of languages that include Sanskrit, ...

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

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

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

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

New genetic evidence traces the roots of English, Sanskrit, and hundreds of other languages to a group of hunter-gatherers in ...

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