The Indo-European language family is one of the most influential and widespread in human history. From the ancient civilizations of India and Greece to modern global languages like English and ...

“The Hittites were uniquely interested in recording rituals in foreign languages,” Daniel Schwemer, head of the Chair of ...

Paul Heggarty and colleagues present a new framework for the chronology and divergence of languages in the Indo-European family, which places the family’s origin at around 8300 BP – older than ...

For over two hundred years, the origin of the Indo-European languages has been disputed. Two main theories have recently dominated this debate: the ‘Steppe’ hypothesis, which proposes an ...

"Ancient DNA and language phylogenetics thus combine to suggest that the resolution to the 200-year-old Indo-European enigma lies in a hybrid of the farming and Steppe hypotheses," remarked Gray.

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 ...

Languages including Farsi are members of the globe-spanning Indo-European language family. Credit: Tina Manley/Alamy Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe ...