Ancient genomes from modern Ukraine and Russia reveal the origins of the Yamna people, pastoralists who migrated from the Eurasian steppe to Europe 5,000 years ago, spreading their ancestry ...

Two new papers, published in the journal Nature, by scientists from Russia and Ukraine, further solidify this claim about the ...

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

The cannabis traces found at Jirzankal Cemetery in the Pamir Mountains had unusually high concentrations of THC.

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

A pair of landmark studies has genetically identified the originators of the massive Indo-European family of 400-plus ...

These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the ...

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