Christians hold that the eight survivors of The Great Flood (Noah and his wife, their three sons, and their wives) disembarked the Ark on Mount Ararat and then migrated to ...

Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

The language that changed the world Around half of the world’s population speaks a descendant of Proto-Indo-European. Most know little about it ...

Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It sounds almost magical, yet this is precisely what some scientists are doing ...

The Proto-Indo-European language emerged 6,000 years ago around the Black Sea when the Yamnaya, a group of nomadic herders, shifted into mining and farming—and interacted with others who ...

The Indo-European languages form a linguistic family that encompasses more than 400 languages, including major groups such as the Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Celtic languages. These ...

Ancient DNA Unlocks Missing Link in the Origin Story of Indo-European Language Learn more about groundbreaking genetic research that reveals a long-lost population and solves a centuries-old ...

In a recent scientific article, through the use of sophisticated methods, the origin of the Indo-European languages is studied, including the Albanian language together with Armenian and Greek.

By Kim Schulte Ever since the discovery, over two centuries ago, that these languages belong to the same family, philologists have worked to reconstruct the first Indo-European language (known as ...

Inspired by winding backroads, country western music, and life on the farm? You'll love these country-themed baby names.