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 ...

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 ...

An archaeologist in Almaty for the past 15 years has been collecting tools, weapons and ammunition of all the peoples who passed through the Central Asian steppes, from the Sakis to the Kazakhs. And ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discovering the Scythians -- The Scythians as others saw them -- Landscapes with people -- Enter the predatory nomads -- The rise of the Pontic Steppe Scythians: 700-200 BC -- Crossing the Carpathians ...

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 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 ...