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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

He suggests, but does not grapple with, the question whether there was an Indo-European race, or merely an aggregate of tribes, possibly of varied physical characteristics, more or less closely ...

evolved from a common tongue called the Proto-Indo-European, whose origin has been a mystery. In the new study, researchers at Vienna University analysed DNA samples of 435 people from ...

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.