An aerial view of the Ural mountain range in the Orenburg region of western Russia. When early people domesticated horses in this region, it marked a turning point that science journalist Laura ...

Today nearly half of humanity speaks an Indo-European language. How did that happen? In a conversation with Aienla Ozukum, about her book, ‘Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global’, journalist ...

Retracing every last twist in the path from there to here, no doubt, would make for a gripping book. However, that is not the book J. P. Mallory wrote. His sole concern in The Indo-Europeans ...

If you have studied almost any European language, you will have noticed words that felt oddly familiar. French mort (dead) recalls English murder. German Hund (dog) is a dead ringer for hound. Czech ...