An international team of linguists and geneticists led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig has achieved a significant breakthrough in our ...
The languages in the Indo-European family are spoken by almost half of the world’s population. This group includes a huge number of languages, ranging from English and Spanish to Russian, Kurdish and ...
A team of 91 researchers—including famed geneticist Eske Willerslev at the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen—has discovered a Bronze Age genetic divergence connected to ...
Explore the Dodecad Ancestry Project's insights into Indo-Aryan origins and the Dagestani ancestral component. Repeated runs and higher K's make it clear that the French Basque lack a "West Asian" ...
List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Indo-European debate and why it matters -- Part I. The vexatious history of Indo-European studies. Ideology ...
On new research by the scholar David Reich. Among the great intellectual developments of the nineteenth century was the advent of the comparative method in the nascent field of linguistics. Among the ...
Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Researchers contribute a new piece to this puzzle. They analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from archaeological sites across Eurasia ...
Learn more about the new language researchers uncovered at the Boğazköy-Hattusha site, indicating the city’s residents loved learning and writing in foreign languages. An Indo-European language has ...
This all started 5,000 years ago. That’s when, give or take a millennium or two, the journey began, which ended with me writing and you reading these words in English. “Where in time and space can we ...