The directors of Steppe Nomads Ger Camp, in Mongolia’s Kherlen River Valley, are women, as are the leaders of most professions in the country, including in academe. It is June on the Mongolian steppe ...

The debate over how to think about Islamic State has mainly centered on important but abstruse questions: Is it evil or not? And on what combination of military and economic pressure might be ...

The Scythians are known as a group of horse-warrior nomad cultures that lived in the Eurasian steppe around the transition to the Iron Age, during the first millennium BCE. The Scythians had a ...

An Etruscan statue of a Scythian mounted archer from the early 5th century BCE. Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Fair Use) Popularized by myth and historical accounts as horse-riding warrior nomads ...

Traveling in Mongolia's countryside is a unique and rewarding experience, but it also offers its challenges because there are no Western-style hotels. In my experience, a good option is to stay in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The World Nomad Games are a spectacular celebration of traditional sports, identity and culture (Credit: Getty Images) The fifth World Nomad Games kicked off this week in Kazakhstan's capital of ...

A research team has sequenced the first six European genomes of the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis dating from the Late Neolithic to the Bronze Age (4,800 to 3,700 years ago). Analysis of ...

The steppe nomads were fearsome horsemen of varying ethnicity who first encountered the great empires of antiquity around 700 B.C., and reappeared with regularity well into the Middle Ages. They ...