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

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

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 ...

These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the ...

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?

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 ...

A pair of landmark studies has genetically identified the originators of the massive Indo-European family of 400-plus ...

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.

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