One important question is this: what do we know about the speakers of proto-languages? In the case of Proto-Indo-European, lively debate over the date and place from which the people initially ...

A ceasefire in Ukraine is of personal interest to almost half the world’s people—not only for geopolitical reasons, but ...

Kaka came into Swedish from Old Norse, and has its roots in a Proto-Indo-European word meaning “ball-shaped object”. It ...

Reich's lab has been pursuing proto-Indo-European speakers for more than 15 years. In 2014, they shared key insights in a Nature article on what Reich called "the profound mixing event" that ...

John Cheever once said, “Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house,” but what does a Sky Bar taste ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who ...

Recently, sorting through stacks of stuff, I came across this literary masterpiece penned by my son. If you are a parent, ...

On Purim and we will read the story of how Haman, a descendant of Amalek, persuaded Achashveros, King of Persia, to destroy ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans ... DNA evidence shows that the proto-Yamnaya population migrated from the Volga region to Anatolia ...

Folk tales offer a kind of fabular impersonality, where an author’s voice is lost in a wider fiction machine or culture of storytelling. That form of multi-voiced impersonality played a big part in ...