Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, ...

Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

DNA Evidence of Ancient Population Hints at Common Ancestry of Indo-European Languages New insights regarding the origin of ...

Over 5,300 years ago, ancient herders known as the Yamna people emerged from the steppes of what is now Ukraine, going on to ...

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 ...

Russia was also part of an incredible movement that took place in the late 19th century to save the Lithuanian language - commonly considered the oldest surviving Indo-European language in the world.