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 ...

The Alani people, or Alans, of the Pontic-Caspian steppe once sent their dead to the afterlife here. Though many of the richer burial mounds, or kurgans, at the site have long since been looted ...

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 ...

and Nikitin et al. present genomic data for 367 individuals from the Pontic–Caspian steppe and surrounding areas, doubling the number of available genomes from the Eneolithic period and almost ...

Map of the Yamnaya culture across the Pontic Steppe, from which the Greeks descend. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY 4.0 A new study has revealed that ancient Greeks are descended from the Yamnaya ...

At that time, one particular horse lineage became dominant, they found. It emerged from the Pontic-Caspian steppe—a region of plains that stretches through modern-day Belarus, Ukraine and Russia ...

But all domestic horses come from the Pontic-Caspian Steppe of Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Russia in the third millennium. Now researchers have pinpointed exactly when this horse took over and the Age ...