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 ...

BERLIN – Scientists say ancient DNA samples indicate massive migration to Europe from the east took place some 4,500 years ago. The findings support the theory that some Indo-European languages, such ...

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 ...

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 ...

ASTANA – Water flows through civilizations. It moves between continents, carries memory, and connects cultures. In Astana, ...

A massive genetic study of 156 ancient genomes shows that the Sarmatians who settled in the Carpathian Basin came from the Urals and Kazakhstan—and survived the Huns’ arrival. A new genetic study has ...

Learn how ancient DNA reveals migrant women helped Europe’s hunter-gatherers adopt farming thousands of years later than the ...

At least 5,600 years ago the Botai people that inhabited what is modern day Kazakhstan used horses--both wild and apparently domestic--as the basis of their lifestyle. With no evidence for agriculture ...