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 ...

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

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

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

Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting ...

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 ...

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

For Indians, these findings offer a new perspective on our linguistic and cultural connections to the wider world.

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

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