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

Take a walk back in time on a visit to Fife, home to towering cathedrals, ancient abbeys and the world’s oldest golf course.

Long before Rome, before China's Iron Age, Tamil Nadu was already forging some of the world's finest swords. New ...

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

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

The massive monument Stonehenge has captivated people's attention for centuries. Built out of enormous stones on Salisbury ...

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

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

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

Coffee must have been the secret weapon of Greek, Slav, and Albanian mercenary units, the stratioti, that fought together throughout Europe in the 15th to 18th centuries. The stratioti must have ...

Archaeologists uncovered a boundary stone, used to mark land borders during the Roman Empire, dated to a period during which ...

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...