Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

The DNA study was split into two papers since Russian and Ukrainian researchers couldn't co-author, Nature reported.

N estled in the rugged terrain of the Caucasus Mountains, a colossal prehistoric fortress has emerged as one of the most enigmatic archaeological discoveriesof recent years. Known as Dmanisis Gora ...

In The Unseen Truth, Sarah Lewis examines how an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries of prejudice and misapprehension. Mikhail Lermontov’s Memory of ...

Adam Mickiewicz himself never went to the Caucasus, yet his works and thoughts made inroads here as well, reaching numerous nations in this mountain range which, in the political imagination, divides ...

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

A new study reveals fresh clues about Indo-European language origins, tracing an ancestral group's key role in their spread.

By the time Christianity arrived, around the sixth century, Svan culture ran deep—with its ... the highest and most isolated villages in the Caucasus—hold fast to their traditions of singing ...