The ancient Greeks of India ruled a large kingdom in South Asia until the Scythian nomads, called Sakas, fought against them.

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 ...

Ancient nomads had a significant hand in the dispersal of the world's oldest domesticated crops, leaving traces in burnt grains of wheat, millet and barley in campsites along the Silk Road, U.S.

Charred grains of barley, millet and wheat deposited nearly 5,000 years ago at campsites in the high plains of Kazakhstan show that nomadic sheepherders played a surprisingly important role in the ...

This newly trendy grain was once far more prominent in human diets: It played a pivotal role in the rise of multi-crop agriculture and settled farming societies. That's according to research from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...