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

The DNA study was split into two papers since Russian and Ukrainian researchers couldn't co-author, Nature reported.

DNA study cracks centuries-old mystery over origin of languages spoken by half the world - Indo-European languages traced to population living in steppe grasslands 6,500 years ago ...

New genetic evidence traces the roots of English, Sanskrit, and hundreds of other languages to a group of hunter-gatherers in ...

Learn more about groundbreaking genetic research that reveals a long-lost population and solves a centuries-old linguistic ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

Ancient DNA reveals how the explosive expansion of Yamnaya steppe pastoralists began with ... how the genetic makeup of people from the North Pontic region was influenced by waves of migration ...

Scythian burial included remains of body sheathed in gold Classical-era Scythians dominated the Pontic steppe from approximately the 7th century BC until the 3rd century BC. These people also referred ...

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Among the unearthed findings is a tin-bronze knife, one of the oldest bronze artifacts discovered in China as well as one of the oldest tin-bronze artifacts found on the Eurasian steppe ...

Scythian burial at the Skorobir necropolis in the fortified settlement of Bilski. Credit: Iryna Shramko The North Pontic region’s genetic diversity over 3,500 years reflects continuous migration and ...