Zeus and other ancient gods from various mythologies may be rooted in earlier Proto-Indo-European beliefs in a "sky father" ...

However, modern scholars differentiate between the “Scythians proper” of the Pontic-Caspian steppe and related but distinct peoples such as the Saka (to the east), the Massagetae, and the ...

For decades, scholars debated between the Steppe Theory, which posits that the Indo-European languages originated with the Yamnaya culture in the Pontic-Caspian steppe, and the Anatolian ...

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

Others see a dualistic model consisting of “the ‘low steppe’ comprising western Turkestan, the north Caspian and the south ... sometimes referred to as the Pontic, Kazakh, and Mongolian ...

Greece marks May 19th as Pontic Greek Genocide Remembrance Day, to honor the memory of approximately 353,000 Pontians exterminated by the New Turks and the Ottoman Empire between 1916 and 1923. In one ...

Cyprus on Monday marked the Pontic Greek genocide remembrance day with strong messages from government officials and political parties, reaffirming the country’s call for global recognition of ...

and pastoralists from the Pontic-Caspian steppe who arrived around 5,000 years ago. In 2022 a research team led by Yassine Souilmi of the University of Adelaide’s Australian Center for Ancient ...

The Foreign Ministry on Monday strongly condemned statements made by Greek officials on May 19, which it described as “delusional” and incompatible with historical facts, in reference to what Athens ...