By analyzing DNA from ancient skeletons ... The discovery of the CLV people as the missing link in the Indo-European story marks a turning point in a 200-year-old quest. Earlier genetic studies ...

Another theory, proposed a century ago by a German scholar named Gustaf Kossinna, held that the proto-Indo-Europeans were an ancient race of north Germans—the people who made Corded Ware pots ...

However, he did not coin the term Indo-European. That name was put forward in 1813 by physicist Thomas Young, a polymath now known for his contribution to deciphering ancient Egyptian scripts ...

Veles is sometimes seen as the mythical antagonist of Perun, part of a structural pattern that may reflect a more ancient Indo-European myth of a primordial ... as the god’s refusal to witness ...

then carry on east all the way to India – and always speak to people whose language belongs to the same family. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you up to date ...

Scholars believe a language used 5,000 years ago on the Asian steppe was the source of many of the world’s modern tongues.

Author Laura Spinney weighs in on the linguistic expansion of Indo-European languages thousands of years ago, examining the ...

D ante did like a category. Famously, he split sinners into different circles in Hell. Those who committed milder ...