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, ...

It’s tricky studying the history of a time when no one wrote things down. Archaeology pieces together how people lived in the past by studying artifacts they left behind; linguistics by analyzing ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others. By Carl Zimmer In 1786, a British judge named William ...

I'm not sure what you call this, but I'm interested in learning about the various "races" of Europe, and what makes them different historically. I am interested in what it really means when someone ...

Europe’s linguistic landscape is shifting once again, and at the heart of this evolution are the Germanic languages, one of the continent’s most influential language families. From the North ...

The B.A. in European Language, Literature and Film Studies offers an education in the languages, storytelling and cinema of Europe. You’ll spend time learning the European language of your choice and ...

Researchers have identified a massive migration of Kurgan populations (Yamna culture) which went from the Russian steppes to the center of Europe some 4,500 years ago, favoring the expansion of ...

The old continent has plenty to offer to curious tourists. The long and turbulent history has left Many Europeans to speak more than one language which is why we decided to put together a list of the ...

Vows of silence and humanist beliefs led European clerics to create new communication methods for the deaf 500 years ago. Charles-Michel de L'Épée teaching the hearing impaired in his Paris institute.