Indo-Aryan migration theory, a controversy for the ages, is fueling discussions once more in India after an article published in The Hindu newspaper highlighted the genetic evidence that the ...

Back in the Neolithic age, a group of humans we now call the Proto-Indo-Europeans lived to the north of the Black Sea, where they prepared to take over the world. This culture spread over Europe and ...

The first civilisations to build monumental palaces and urban centres in Europe are more genetically homogenous than expected, according to genomes gathered from archaeological sites around the Aegean ...

New DNA evidence suggests that herders from the grasslands of today's Russia and Ukraine carried the roots of modern European languages across the continent some 4,500 years ago. The introduction of ...