“Conflict” seems to imply war and genocide. If disease killed them, it would be very odd for another group to move into their ...

Todd Anthony Kurgan, age 52, passed away April 26, 2025. He was born on April 4, 1973 in Columbus, OH to the late John and Madonna Kurgan. Todd ...

Kurgan Sehri Time and Iftar Time 2025 April 13, 2025 - Today's Sehri time in Kurgan is 03:33 AM, and Iftar time is 7:41 pm, corresponding to the Islamic date 15 Shawwal 1446. A complete 30-day Ramadan ...

"Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supports the Indo-European steppe hypothesis", by Will Chang, Chundra Cathcart, David Hall and Andrew Garrett (all of UC-Berkeley), provides new support for ...

The Kurgan (pictured) from the movie Highlander wasn't based on a specific person but on a real-life people: the Kurgans, an ancient nomadic people from the Pontic-Caspian steppe.

And no one seems concerned that the Russian word kurgan, which has played an outsize role in Indo-European studies for generations, came to Slavic from a Turkic—i.e., non-Indo-European—language. Even ...

The “Kurgan hypothesis,” associated above all with the late Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, has been a major part of Indo-European discourse for seventy-five years. In the last few ...

The research not only confirms the linguistic hypotheses of Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian but also dismisses alternative theories, such as the Italo-Germanic hypothesis, which proposed a closer ...

The study reveals flaws in the Kurgan hypothesis, and the authors suggest that researchers need to do more than study skeletal changes to pinpoint an exact date when humans tamed horses. “Human ...

But the Kurgan hypothesis, which emerged in the early 20th century, argues that the close relationship between humans and horses began much earlier. Proponents believe that around the fourth ...

But here comes the Kurgan hypothesis, saying, “Hold your horses!” This theory, originating in the early 20th century, posits that the close relationship between humans and horses started much earlier.

One long-standing theory, known as the Kurgan hypothesis, suggests that the Yamnaya people near the Black Sea were the first to ride horses, around 3500 B.C. According to this theory, the ...