Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe that transformed the culture and genetics of Europe and Asia, revealing a potential source for the Indo-European ...

to reduce the Indo-European element in Indo-European culture, and to assume an agglutinative phase before the flexional which is represented by the Dravidian, Sumerian, and Hittite languages ...

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global. By Laura Spinney. Bloomsbury; 352 pages; $29.99. William Collins; £22 Dante did like a category. Famously, he split sinners into different circles in ...

“Chances are, we wouldn’t even know about this crucial culture in human history.” As the debate over the origins of Indo-European languages continues, one thing is clear: The story is far ...

Chances are, we wouldn't even know about this crucial culture in human history." More information: Iosif Lazaridis et al, The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038 ...

The oldest Indo-European writing, dating back 3,700 years ... people — perhaps just a few hundred — formed a distinctive culture and became the first Yamnaya. Another wave of CLV people ...

Based on both lexical and, especially, archaeological evidence, the standard view among scholars has for some time been that the Proto-Indo-European homeland was on the Pontic-Caspian steppe, between ...

Linguistic reconstruction reveals how Indo-European languages share a common ... and comparative mythology hint at a prehistoric culture that revered the heavens, though the Sky Father’s exact ...

Is there a common Indo-European protoculture? How were they so successful in imposing their languages in new lands? What other aspects of culture did they impose? And to what extent did they ...

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 ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...