The Ancient Pazyryk culture's frozen tombs, preserved mummies, tattoos, and artifacts reshape views on nomadic life.

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 ...

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 ...

Hardy, nutritious and gluten-free, millet has become an "it" grain in recent years. Research reveals our ancestors relied on it: Millet was... Like amaranth and quinoa before it, millet – a hardy, ...

New Series, Vol. 7, No. 2, Special Issue: Nomads and Nomadism in Post-revolutionary Iran (2003), pp. 36-47 (12 pages) Founded in the 1970s, the journal Nomadic Peoples has a long and respected ...

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 ...

Magdalena M.E. Bunbury receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) (project number CE170100015). She currently carries out a cadetship at the Reef and Rainforest Research Centre, a non ...

CHOLPON-ATA, KyrgyzstanCHOLPON-ATA, Kyrgyzstan — On the shore of one of the world’s deepest lakes, high up in Kyrgyzstan’s Tian Shan mountains, models strutted and sashayed in outfits mixing the ...

Saka artisans crafted ornaments using gold and inlaid precious stones. The Fitzwilliam Museum An upcoming exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, will introduce visitors to the ...

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 ...