View of the “kurgan” burial mounds at Berel in East Kazakhstan Photo courtesy of the Embassy of Kazakhstan Although little is known of the lives of the nomadic tribes, who 2,500 years ago roamed the ...

A team of international scientists led by Dr. Ariel Malinsky-Buller, together with Ph.D. students David Nora, Ioannis ...

A meta-analysis of dietary information recorded in the bones of ancient animals and humans recovered from sites scattered across the Eurasian steppe, from the Caucasus region to Mongolia, demonstrates ...

Nomads of the Eurasian steppe were ruled by elite dynastic families, including women, a large-scale genetic analysis reveals.

The collapse of an ancient nomadic empire may have set off centuries of violence across the Eurasian steppe, and now archaeologists believe they have discovered a cemetery of victims from this ...

Ancient nomads known as the Scythians did indeed use human skin for the containers that held their arrows—confirming the account of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who is often questioned about ...

This newly trendy grain was once far more prominent in human diets: It played a pivotal role in the rise of multi-crop agriculture and settled farming societies. That's according to research from ...

The ancient Romans were passionate about emeralds. As the Roman writer Pliny the Elder declared in his first-century C.E. Natural History, “[T]here is no stone, the color of which is more delightful ...

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 ...

Julien Cooper loves exploring places on the periphery. From hiking in his native Australia to trips to remote locations throughout Europe with his family, Cooper, a postdoctoral research associate in ...

Spectacular gold objects and monumental gilded horns dating from the first millennium BCE were excavated in recent years from burial mounds (kurgans) in the vast grasslands and steppes of Kazakhstan, ...

Sand hockey is similar in many ways to field and ice hockey, but played barefoot and with palm wood sticks — FADEL SENNA In a Moroccan oasis town on the edge of the Sahara, nomads in turbans and ...