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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The DNA study was split into two papers since Russian and Ukrainian researchers couldn't co-author, Nature reported.

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

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 ...

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

Indo-European languages (IE), which number over 400 and include major groups such as Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Celtic, are spoken by nearly half the world's population today.