Mongolia: “Steppe Road” Program. 蒙古国“草原之路” Unveiled in November 2014, Mongolia’s “Steppe Road” Program relies on its strategically important location on the Eurasian ...

A long train journey deep into a windswept wilderness: isn’t this travel at its most romantic? If such an idea immediately summons thoughts of fur hats and Doctor Zhivago, you’re probably one of the ...

LONG a human dumping ground, Kazakhstan is used to mass shifts of population. Josef Stalin sent his enemies to gulags on the steppe, and during the second world war deported millions of people ...

The Mongolian steppe is a hotspot, where the dialogue between scientific and traditional ecological knowledge is starting to take shape. Banner image: Nomadic life is decreasing in Mongolia, ...

The wider Caucasus region, between the Black and the Caspian Seas, connects Europe, the Near East and Asia. It displays a huge geographic, ecological, economic, cultural, and linguistic range today, ...

The Mongol conquest of China was a massive military campaign that took decades and reshaped an entire civilization. This ...

Steppe migrant thugs pacified by Stone Age farming women Date: April 4, 2017 Source: Faculty of Science - University of Copenhagen Summary: When present day European genetics was formed during the ...

For over two hundred years, the origin of the Indo-European languages has been disputed. Two main theories have recently dominated this debate: the ‘Steppe’ hypothesis, which proposes an origin in the ...

Kazakhstan: Steppe by step Kazakhstan is a nation of vast, dramatic landscapes, shining modern cities and people who always 'welcome everybody into their tent', as Jerome Taylor discovers ...