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 Siberian “Ice Princess” of Ukok and the tattooed warriors of Pazyryk, preserved in permafrost, offer hauntingly intimate portraits of Scythian identity, aesthetics, and beliefs.

The language I describe as Proto-Indo-European in my book is the parent of all living Indo-European languages, as well as many that are now extinct. I make that clarification because there is an ...

In “Proto,” Laura Spinney details the centurieslong effort to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European (PIE), what linguists believe to be the mother tongue of a diverse constellation of languages from ...

For Jones’s “common source” now has a name: “Proto-Indo-European” (PIE). It was first spoken by as little as a few dozen people around the Black Sea then, roughly 5,000 years ago, spread ...

The Indo-European family is the largest, especially when counting second-language speakers. It spans 12 branches with historic roots stretching from northwestern China to Western Europe. According to ...

Tracing Indo-European’s origins Jones speculated that the birthplace of Proto-Indo-European was probably in what is now Iran, with speakers migrating east towards India and west towards Europe.

Among the arresting things that Reich et al. argue is that we should speak of a precursor to Proto-Indo-European: Proto-Indo-Anatolian, which they believe split sometime between 4300 and 3500 B.C ...

Among the arresting things that Reich et al. argue is that we should speak of a precursor to Proto-Indo-European: Proto-Indo-Anatolian, which they believe split sometime between 4300 and 3500 B.C.

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 ...

These languages trace their roots to Proto-Indo-European (PIE), whose origins and dispersal have been a subject of scholarly investigation since the 19th century. Despite extensive research, ...