Biologists using tools developed for drawing evolutionary family trees say that they have solved a long-standing problem in archaeology: the origin of the Indo-European family of languages. The family ...

Photo of Remontnoye (3766–3637 calBCE), with a spiral temple ring. Credit: Natalia Shishlina (co-author of "The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans") Photo of Remontnoye (3766–3637 calBCE), with a ...

The language family began to diverge from around 8,100 years ago, out of a homeland immediately south of the Caucasus. One migration reached the Pontic-Caspian and Forest Steppe around 7,000 years ago ...

From English and Russian to Bengali and Punjabi, billions of us around the world speak Indo-European languages. And in the same way that we all came from a common ancestor, all of these languages ...

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 ...

The Indo-European languages belong to one of the widest spread language families of the world. For the last two millenia, many of these languages have been written, and their history is relatively ...

Researchers say they have a good idea of where exactly in the world the ancestral language of all Indo-European languages -- which cover the world and number as many as 400 -- arose. A decades long ...

Evolutionary biologists have waded into the stormy debate over when and where Indo-European languages originated. Dr Russell Gray and PhD student Quentin Atkinson from the University of Auckland in ...

The roots of the Indo-European languages date back to about 8,100 years ago in a region south of the Caucasus, according to a study released on Thursday that has also suggested that Vedic Sanskrit was ...