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Indo‑European: Branch by Branch – the Rise and Fall

A ten‑minute visual tour of the earliest written records of each Indo‑European branch and the archaeological models of their homeland and migrations.

Chapters

• 0:07 Origins and Migrations
• 1:52 Anatolian and Tocharian Voices
• 3:19 European Branches
• 4:28 Indo‑Iranian and Balto‑Slavic

On-screen text

• 0:07 Origins and Migrations
• 0:14 Origins and Migrations
• 0:31 Yamna kurgan, Ukraine (3300–2600 BCE) The Institute's interpretation · Yamna culture burial mounds, Ukraine (3300–2600 BCE)
• 0:49 Hattusa ruins, Anatolia (c. 1600–1200 BCE) The Institute's interpretation · Excavations at Hattusa, Turkey (c. 1600–1200 BCE)
• 1:07 Treaty of Kadesh tablet (c. 1259 BCE) Historical record · Treaty of Kadesh, Hittite cuneiform tablet (c. 1259 BCE)
• 1:25 Karatepe bilingual (8th c. BCE) Historical record · Karatepe Bilingual inscription, Luwian hieroglyphs & Phoenician (8th c. BCE)
• 1:43 Linear B tablets, Pylos (c. 1300 BCE) Historical record · Linear B tablets from Pylos, Greece (c. 1300 BCE)
• 1:52 Anatolian and Tocharian Voices
• 1:59 Anatolian and Tocharian Voices
• 2:16 Treaty of Kadesh tablet (c. 1259 BCE) Historical record · Treaty of Kadesh, Hittite cuneiform tablet (c. 1259 BCE)
• 2:34 Karatepe bilingual (8th c. BCE) Historical record · Karatepe Bilingual inscription, Luwian hieroglyphs & Phoenician (8th c. BCE)
• 2:52 Tocharian B manuscript (7th–9th c. CE) Historical record · Tocharian B Buddhist manuscript fragments, Kucha (7th–9th c. CE)
• 3:10 Linear B tablets, Pylos (c. 1300 BCE) Historical record · Linear B tablets from Pylos, Greece (c. 1300 BCE)
• 3:19 European Branches
• 3:26 European Branches
• 3:43 Coligny Calendar stone (1st c. CE) Historical record · The Coligny Calendar, Gaulish stone inscription (1st c. CE)
• 4:01 Oscan Cumae inscription (3rd c. BCE) Historical record · Oscan inscription from Cumae, Italy (3rd c. BCE)
• 4:19 Iliad, early Greek epic (c. 750 BCE) Historical record · Homeric Iliad, Greek epic (c. 750 BCE, oral tradition)
• 4:28 Indo‑Iranian and Balto‑Slavic
• 4:35 Indo‑Iranian and Balto‑Slavic
• 4:52 Rig Veda hymns (c. 1500–1200 BCE) Historical record · Rig Veda, Sanskrit hymns (c. 1500–1200 BCE)
• 5:10 Behistun Inscription (c. 522 BCE) Historical record · Behistun Inscription, Old Persian (c. 522 BCE)
• 5:28 Mashtots inscription (5th c. CE) Historical record · Mashtots inscription at Etchmiadzin, Armenia (5th c. CE)
• 5:46 Old Church Slavonic Gospel (10th c. CE) Historical record · Codex Zographensis, Old Church Slavonic Gospel (10th c. CE)

Sources

Historical record: Treaty of Kadesh, Hittite cuneiform tablet (c. 1259 BCE) · Karatepe Bilingual inscription, Luwian hieroglyphs & Phoenician (8th c. BCE) · Linear B tablets from Pylos, Greece (c. 1300 BCE) · Tocharian B Buddhist manuscript fragments, Kucha (7th–9th c. CE) · The Coligny Calendar, Gaulish stone inscription (1st c. CE) · Vimose stone, early runic inscription, Denmark (c. 160 CE) · Oscan inscription from Cumae, Italy (3rd c. BCE) · Homeric Iliad, Greek epic (c. 750 BCE, oral tradition) · Rig Veda, Sanskrit hymns (c. 1500–1200 BCE) · Behistun Inscription, Old Persian (c. 522 BCE) · Mashtots inscription at Etchmiadzin, Armenia (5th c. CE) · Codex Zographensis, Old Church Slavonic Gospel (10th c. CE)

The Institute's interpretation: Yamna culture burial mounds, Ukraine (3300–2600 BCE) · Excavations at Hattusa, Turkey (c. 1600–1200 BCE)

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