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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Kyrgyz of the Pamir Mountains live divided by borders -- some in China or Afghanistan, the majority in Tajikistan. During the Soviet era their nomadic lifestyle was brought to an end, as they were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It suggests that an early horned dinosaur of Mongolia and China, Protoceratops, was discovered by ancient nomads prospecting for gold in Central Asia. Tales of Protoceratops bones then traveled ...

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 ...

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 ...

Judging from bronze articles unearthed from ancient tombs in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, archaeologists estimate that nomadic tribes in north China had contacts with Western civilizations ...