An international team of scientists has managed to decipher the genetic code of the Scythians, perhaps one of the most ...

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

A study of genomes from ancient Siberian people shows genetic linkages with people living in Estonia, Finland and Hungary today.

The ethnonym Kyrgyz is one of the oldest among Turkic-speaking peoples, supported by historical evidence for the name. It is ...

Recent DNA analysis from excavations in China, Central Asia, and Hungary has uncovered the origins of the marauding Huns who swept across Eurasian steppes into Europe in the days of the Roman Empire.

The geopolitical impact of the Arab state on the trajectory of Asian history was enormous: it swept away old states and ...

The domestication of horses changed the course of human history, but scientists have tried for years to figure out when and where this crucial event happened. Now, evidence from a new study using ...

Humans have been using horses for several thousand years. We don’t know which tribe or group of people first tamed them. Our ancestors were hunting and eating horses long before ...

These lists almost invariably include China, India, and great powers based in the Middle East, the steppes of Central Asia, and in the Mediterranean region or Europe.

In very short order, horses went from being a steppe curiosity to the foundation of authority for one of the largest civilizations of East Asia.

A new “Great Game” is unfolding in the Caucasus and Central Asia, echoing the 19th-century rivalry between empires, with a ...