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

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

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

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

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

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

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

The rise of pastoralist peoples in the Eurasian steppes and their westward spread some 5,000 years ago may have been fueled by sheep herding and people exploiting their milk. As early as 8,000 years ...

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