How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story is its starting point, specifically, determining where it was. He hopes ...

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 ...

An extinct set of Indo-European languages was spoken there during the Bronze Age. Linguists have long believed they represent an early split from proto-Indo-European. During the 21st century ...

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 ...

It’s really gratifying to see that a book on a subject that some may find obscure is getting a lot of attention from writers ...

“If the Proto-Indo-Europeans had words for axles and wagons, it tells us something about when and where they lived,” he added. By reconstructing these words, researchers were able to find the ...

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 ...

Originating from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language, historians and linguists since the 19th century have been investigating its origins and spread as there is still a knowledge gap.

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others. By Carl Zimmer In 1786, a British judge named ...

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.