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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...