Wood engraving, published in 1886. babylonian stock illustrations Tower of Babel and the confusion of languages (Genesis 11) Tower of Babel and the confusion of languages (Genesis 11, 7). Wood ...

Today, about half the world speaks an Indo-European language. Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language.

Astrology, the belief that the positions of celestial bodies influence earthly events and human lives, has been a pervasive ...

The modern era has witnessed an incredible surge in the popularity of all forms of media concerning the mythology of the ancient Mesopotamians.

Geralt via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 New research analyzing ancient DNA may have finally solved a long-standing linguistic mystery: Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

Who were these people? And how did their language spread so far and wide? A landmark pair of studies may finally have uncovered answers hidden in ancient DNA. By analyzing genetic material from ...

In collaboration with Harvard University’s ancient DNA lab, the team has filled a gap in the Indo-European linguistic record that has puzzled scientists and historians for centuries in a new study ...

The second was posed in the eighteenth century, when scholars noticed similarities between classical Greek and Latin and Sanskrit, an ancient language from South Asia, and suggested a common origin.

A breakthrough discovery has revealed the hidden link between ancient populations and the spread of Indo-European languages. The Caucasus-Lower Volga population has been identified as the genetic ...

Ancient DNA locates the geographic origin of Proto-Indo-Europeans and Proto-Anatolians and describes their early migrations out of the Caucasus Lower Volga and North Pontic regions of present-day ...

Archaeologists have discovered some of the earliest-known stone fragments containing Germanic letter inscriptions at a grave site in Norway, offering unprecedented insights into Norse language before ...