For about half the people alive today, the story of where they came from just became clearer. For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ...

WASHINGTON — The tale of the first horseback riders may be written on the bones of the ancient Yamnaya people. Five excavated skeletons dated to about 3000 to 2500 B.C. show clear signs of ...

“And we were looking into the human beings.” The skeletons in question were once people of the Yamnaya culture, living in what is now southeastern Europe, some 5,000 years ago. But because ...

Corded Ware Culture artifacts also display stylistic contributions from non-Yamnaya people who came from northern, forested parts of western Asia, Heyd notes. To conduct their analysis ...

The roughly 5,000-year-old human remains were found in graves from the Yamnaya culture, and the discovery may partially explain their rapid expansion throughout Europe. The earliest depictions of ...

Most of the skeletons belonged to a group of people known as the Yamnaya, cattle and sheep herders who originated on the Pontic-Caspian steppe that stretches from southeastern Europe into ...

Ancient DNA helps explain why northern Europeans have a higher risk of multiple sclerosis than other ancestries: It’s a genetic legacy of horseback-riding cattle herders who swept into the ...

When a Bronze Age people called the Yamnaya moved from the steppes of what are now Ukraine and Russia into northwestern Europe, they carried gene variants that today are known to increase people's ...

Archaeologists excavated a dirt mound and found an ancient Yamnaya culture grave, a first-of-its-kind find for Slovakia, photos show. Photo from the Slovak Academy of Sciences Inside a relatively ...

The Ukrainian hamlet Mykhailivka, now under Russian occupation, was pinpointed as the genetic cradle of the Yamnaya. From there they exploded across Eurasia, spreading their genes and their way of ...