A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the Indo-European family of 400-plus languages, spoken today by more than 40% of the ...

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

A new study reveals fresh clues about Indo-European language origins, tracing an ancestral group's key role in their spread.

At the heart of this discovery was the Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV ... the continent's cultural and genetic landscape. The Yamnaya people, originating around 5500 years ago in present-day Ukraine ...

Researchers used drone imagery to analyze the full scope of a massive, 3,000-year-old fortress in the Caucasus mountains. Digitally stitching together 11,000 images, they created a complete map of the ...