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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

DNA study cracks centuries-old mystery over origin of languages spoken by half the world - Indo-European languages traced to ...