A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

Long before Rome, before China's Iron Age, Tamil Nadu was already forging some of the world's finest swords. New archaeological discoveries reveal that South India's iron technology dates back over 5, ...

The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of ...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

Learn more about the papyrus that contains detailed medical procedures from Ancient Egypt.

Scientists hope that a combination of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help them decipher ancient scrolls ...

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...

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

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

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

A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural ...

Learn more about groundbreaking genetic research that reveals a long-lost population and solves a centuries-old linguistic mystery.