Today, India, despite global scrutiny, has maintained a principled partnership with Iran, balancing its energy and strategic interests with Western diplomacy.

In 1786, an English judge then resident in Calcutta, Sir William Jones delivered a speech to the members of the "Asiatick Society", an institution that had been founded by him and a few other ...

The Indo‑Iranian connection did not end with the Indus Valley civilisation; it carried forward through language, philosophy, ...

Journalist and novelist Spinney (Pale Rider) explains how a single language family spread across the world in this astute account. Combining the discoveries of linguists, archaeologists, and ...

Proto-Indo-European was last spoken between approximately 4,500 and 2,500 BC by our ancestors from all over Europe and Asia. It is thought to have originated on the steppes to the north of the Caspian ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna contribute a new piece to this puzzle in ...

Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp? Who put the -stan in Afghanistan? I don’t know about the former, but we can thank the Proto-Indo-Europeans for the latter. These folks spoke the ...