A mummified body attributed to the Scythian culture of the Eurasian steppes has drawn renewed scholarly attention for what ...

Around 900 BCE, a group of nomads from Siberia called Scythians began spreading across the central Asian steppe, their mounted archers sweeping across huge swaths of territory. Today the steppe from ...

During our history, ancient civilisations have considerably shaped the global ecosystems through a coevolution of landscape and local populations. In some cases, the legacy of the disappeared ...

A grand Bronze Age settlement in today’s Kazakhstan tells one of humanity’s most important stories — the shift from a nomadic to a settled lifestyle. Mere three-foot-tall mounds scattered across the ...

ALMATY – Turan University in Astana presented the exhibition “Written Heritage of the Great Steppe” on Feb. 19, organized by ...

Ancient historiographers described steppe nomads as violent people dedicated to warfare and plundering. Little archaeological and anthropological data are however available regarding violence in these ...

Bison mummies hold valuable information for researchers who want to understand how biodiversity evolved and responded to climate change. Abigail Eisenstadt This mummified steppe bison was donated to ...

Based on an analysis of ancient DNA from domestic dogs in China, researchers have recently discovered that European dogs' influence reached Northeast China as early as 6,000 to 5,500 years ago. This ...