As Aleksander Gieysztor, one of the most accomplished scholars of Slavic religion, observed, this cosmogonic myth weaves together two motifs typical of Indo-European mythology: one is the oceanic ...

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global By Laura Spinney William Collins (distributed in India by HarperCollins India), ...

Who was Dyeus Pater, and why does his name echo in deities from India to Rome? This historical journey explores the linguistic legacy of a proto-Indo-European Sky Father, reconstructing his ...

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

Indo-European languages spoken by nearly half of the world today originated from an ancient population that lived in the North Caucasus mountains and the Lower Volga, according to a new DNA study ...

From a purely linguistic point of view, then, Proto-Indo-Anatolian is for these researchers the equivalent of what the rest of us are used to speaking of as Proto-Indo-European.

From a purely linguistic point of view, then, Proto-Indo-Anatolian is for these researchers the equivalent of what the rest of us are used to speaking of as Proto-Indo-European.

Some of the oldest myths in the Indo-European tradition concern the existence of supernatural or divine horses. The earliest text in Sanskrit, or indeed any Indo-European language—the family ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna contribute a new piece to this ...

Ancient DNA reveals Indo-European speakers came from a region where multiple populations mixed and migrated over time. Geralt via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 New research analyzing ancient DNA may ...

This revelation is part of what is said to be a potentially path-breaking initiative to explore Tamil’s connections to Indo-European languages, providing a new perspective on the evolution of words.