English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German. Yet long before the spread of these Indo-European languages, a patchwork of ...

Europe, with its 48 countries and nearly 750 million inhabitants spread over 19.53 million square kilometres, is a melting pot of languages. Over 200 languages are spoken across the continent, ...

The common ancestor of Indo-European languages, which are now spoken by close to half the world’s population, was spoken in the eastern Mediterranean around 8000 years ago, according to an analysis of ...

In ancient India, the most powerful god was known as “sky father,” or in the Sanskrit language, Dyaus pita. Sound it out. Can you see where this is going? In Greece, his equivalent was Zeus pater; in ...

UCLA established an interdisciplinary European studies department to allow students to study European languages and culture in greater depth. The university merged several of its European language ...

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 William ...

Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe that transformed the culture and genetics of Europe and Asia, revealing a potential source for the Indo-European language ...