Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting across its vast grasslands. They lived in a world without settlements, ...

A mysterious lost language spoken 8,000 years ago in Eurasia is the hidden ancestor linking Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and ...

Looking at DNA gleaned from ancient remains, researchers identified at least eight previously unknown populations of early Europeans. Two 14,000-year-old skulls, one male and one female, found in ...

BARCELONA, Spain — The discovery of five words inscribed on a 2,000-year-old bronze hand may help rewrite the history of the Basque language, one of Europe’s most mysterious tongues. Investigators in ...

Detail from a manuscript made for King Lebna Dengel, circa 1520, Tädbabä Maryam Monastery, Ethiopia. Photograph by Diana Spencer, courtesy of the DEEDS Project In early 2020, just as the scope and ...

The relationship between China and Europe stretches back to antiquity, but it was not until the Age of Exploration that genuine, in-depth exchanges of thought and culture began. Between the 16th and ...