The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story

A lifetime's study brings revealing expertise to an oft-misunderstood topic in human history-the origin and language of the Indo-Europeans.

Today the number of native speakers of Indo-European languages across the world is approximated to be over 2.6 billion-about 45 percent of the Earth's population. Yet the idea that an ancient, prehistoric population in one time and place gave rise to a wide variety of peoples and languages is one with a long and troubled past. In this expansive investiga...