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.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...