Climate change, invasions, and economic decline contributed to the collapse of Mediterranean Bronze Age civilizations.

Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

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

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be wild boars that were hunted. At the dawn of the Iron Age, some 500 years ...

The British Museum should return the ancient treasures to Greece for the sake of art, not nationalism.

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

On the outskirts of Kadesh, Pharaoh Ramesses II finds himself ensnared in an ambush set by the Hittites. Through a tumultuous clash of chariots and strategic might, the Battle of Kadesh unfolds—the ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

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

A new study reveals fresh clues about Indo-European language origins, tracing an ancestral group's key role in their spread.

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

The first pylon of the Ramesseum on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor is undergoing major restoration, reports Nevine El-Aref ...