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 ...

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.

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

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

The only branch of Indo-European language (IE) that had not exhibited any steppe ancestry previously was Anatolian, including Hittite, probably the oldest branch to split away, uniquely preserving ...