A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

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

Researchers used drone imagery to analyze the full scope of a massive, 3,000-year-old fortress in the Caucasus mountains. Digitally stitching together 11,000 images, they created a complete map of the ...

In The Unseen Truth, Sarah Lewis examines how an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries ...

High in the Caucasus Mountains, the region of Svaneti is home to unique medieval tower houses. Constructed between the ninth ...

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

Archaeologists have uncovered a massive Bronze Age fortress called Dmanisis Gora in the Caucasus Mountains, revealing it is ...

Indo-European languages spoken by nearly half of the world today originated from an ancient population that lived in the ...

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

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

George Kennan, an explorer and one of the most popular American public lecturers in the late 19th century, was probably the first American to travel the length of the Caucasus Mountains and was ...

New genetic evidence traces the roots of English, Sanskrit, and hundreds of other languages to a group of hunter-gatherers in ...