Afterlife Detour 5: Chasing Proto-Indo-European

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.4 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In this detour episode we go way, way back.
Six thousand years ago, a language was forming that would spawn dozens of descendants, who came to occupy most of Europe and much of Anatolia, India and Iran. This ancient tongue is Proto-Indo-European. Join Bernie Maoplski of the Fan of History podcast and I, as we chase down the latest theories on the origins of this ancestral language.
You can find Bernie's show at https://shows.acast.com/history.

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0:00.0	G'day, I'm Gary Stevens.
0:08.7	Welcome to the afterlife of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:16.8	Afterlife DTor 5.
0:19.7	Chasing Proto-Indo-European
0:22.6	Hi all. In this Detour episode we go way way back.
0:29.6	6,000 years ago, a language was forming that would spawn dozens of descendants, who came to occupy most of Europe, and much of Anatolia,
0:41.1	India and Iran. This ancient tongue is proto-Indo-European.
0:47.6	Join Bernie Mayapolsky of the fan of History Podcast and I, as we chase down the latest theories
0:55.0	on the origins of this ancestral language.
0:59.0	You can find Bernie's show
1:01.4	at shows.acast.com
1:05.3	slash history.
1:07.3	Hope you like the show.
1:09.4	Hello Gary.
1:12.6	Hello Bernie. Hello, happy people.
1:14.6	Hello, everybody, and we're so happy.
1:17.6	We are going to talk today about pie.
1:19.6	No.
1:20.6	Well, yes, but not that kind of pie.
1:23.6	We're going to talk about pie as the abbreviation of proto-Indo-European.
1:31.5	Indo-European is the language that most of us listening to this, well, if you're listening to it in
1:36.5	English, you're listening to it in Indo-European language.
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