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...