A new study maps the genetic origins of Scythians, showing diverse steppe and minor Asian ancestry and revising long‑held ...

Archaeologists digitally reconstructed tattoos on a 2,500‑year‑old mummy from Siberia, revealing Iron Age artistry and ...

By the end of the Bronze Age (ca. 3000 to 800 BCE), elk had become stylized symbols—possibly representing status, clan ...

The Huns were a nomadic people whose sudden and ferocious arrival in the late 4th century sent shockwaves through the ancient ...

A team of archaeologists from Switzerland used high-resolution digital imaging technology to examine tattoos invisible to the naked eye on a 2000-year-old ice mummy from Siberia.

Researchers sought to understand the genetic, sociopolitical and cultural changes surrounding the formation of the eastern Eurasian Steppe's historic empires. The study analyzed genome-wide data ...

Today, non-urban people living on the Eurasian steppe still practice mobile dairy pastoralism. Researchers suspect milk was even more important to the Bronze Age herders moving across the steppe ...

The western Eurasian steppe, in turquoise in the image immediately below, is a vast ecoregion of Eurasia. It consists of temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands.

Milk enabled massive steppe migration Date: September 15, 2021 Source: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Summary: The long-distance migrations of early Bronze Age pastoralists ...