“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 ...

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

In the case of Proto-Indo-European, lively debate over the date ... and that the dispersal of members of the Yamnaya culture, whose most striking cultural practice still visible today was the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This proposal challenges the traditional view that considers the Astures as a Celtic or at least Indo-European people. Ballester based his argument on a convergence of linguistic, cultural, and ...

the standard view among scholars has for some time been that the Proto-Indo-European homeland was on the Pontic-Caspian steppe, between and north of the Black and Caspian Seas, and that the dispersal ...