The Yamnaya: How a Few Thousand Herders Replaced Europe

Five thousand years ago, a small group of herders from the steppe north of the Black Sea spread from Hungary to Kazakhstan — and their descendants reshaped the DNA and the languages of half the world. 🔎 In this video: The mystery of the Indo-European languages Who the Yamnaya were Where they came from: the 2025 DNA studies The expansion across Europe and Asia How so few replaced so many Subscribe for more documentaries on the origins of peoples, told through ancient DNA. 📚 Sources: Lazaridis et al., Nature 2025 · Haak et al., Nature 2015 · Olalde et al., Nature 2018 · Wilkin et al., Nature 2021 · Rasmussen et al., Cell 2015 · Trautmann et al., Science Advances 2023 Illustrations are AI-generated reconstructions. Narration: AI voice. #Yamnaya #AncientDNA #History