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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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? Researchers contribute a new piece to this puzzle. They analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from archaeological sites across Eurasia ...