In the short run, the Trump presidency has already ensured one thing: The assumptions of the past can no longer guide the ...

The mysterious Harappan civilization is considered the third oldest in the ancient East after that of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

The meeting of world leaders at The Hague resulted in a spending increase for most European members of NATO, but it was the US president that once again set the tone.

The reconstructed lexicon of Proto-Indo-European has only about 1,600 words, and at its dawn the language may have been spoken by as few as 100 people—people who didn’t need words for such ...

An incredible map shows the most widely spoken languages in each country in Africa. There are believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 distinct languages across the continent, which have roots in ...

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf The greatest poetry books ever written I remember the first time I picked up ...

And no one seems concerned that the Russian word kurgan, which has played an outsize role in Indo-European studies for generations, came to Slavic from a Turkic—i.e., non-Indo-European—language. Even ...

The beautiful 62-mile road that saved the world's oldest Indo-European language This road dates back to the early 13th century and has played a key role in saving one of the world's oldest languages.

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, identifying the ancestral population that gave rise to more than 400 languages ...

The origin of the Indo-European language family has been an enigma that has intrigued linguists, historians, and archaeologists for centuries. Despite multiple studies conducted since the 19th century ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others.

Etruscans DNA Until recently, however, huge holes in Etruscan scholarship remained while academics attempted to tease out more about how these people came to be and where they might have originated ...