DNA Evidence of Ancient Population Hints at Common Ancestry of Indo-European Languages New insights regarding the origin of ...

Fast-forward to the 21st century, and thanks to the wonders of genetic research, we’re now closer than ever to pinpointing ...

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, ...

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A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

For Indians, these findings offer a new perspective on our linguistic and cultural connections to the wider world.

Two research papers published in Nature by scientists from Russia and Ukraine provide new evidence supporting the theory that ...

Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

Two new papers, published in the journal Nature, by scientists from Russia and Ukraine, further solidify this claim about the ...

Lower Volga group therefore can be connected to all Indo-European-speaking populations and is the best candidate for the population that spoke Indo-Anatolian, the ancestor of both Hittite and all ...

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 ...

Indo-European languages spoken by nearly half of the world today originated from an ancient population that lived in the North Caucasus mountains and the Lower Volga, according to a new DNA study.