Martin Knutson was alone at the edge of space. He was 70,000 feet above Soviet Russia, strapped into a U-2 spy plane so fragile it could barely survive turbulence. Below him, the Russian steppe ...

Archaeologists discovered a 3,000 BC board game in southern Russia that may represent one of the earliest known chess predecessors.

In the chaos after 1917, Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg tried to harness the nomadic steppe to crush the Bolsheviks and resurrect a vanished world of thrones and empires. This episode follows his ...

From reconnaissance drones to ground robots, high-tech systems play a key role in Ukraine’s defense. In the Kharkiv region, ...

Women warriors appear in myths across the world. Yet historical sources and archaeological finds show the female warrior is not just a myth.

While analyzing livestock DNA from Arkaim, an international team that includes University of Arkansas archaeologist Taylor Hermes detected Yersinia pestis in ...

The city of Kherson was captured by Russia shortly after it launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. After seven ...

The Soviet Union severed Central Asia’s ancient trade routes to the Indian subcontinent. The region’s modern-day leaders want ...

With environmental damages now estimated at £108 billion, Ukraine is hoping to pioneer the global prosecution of ecocide as a weapon of war ...

When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

A mysterious form of plague that spread across Eurasia thousands of years before the Black Death has finally revealed a crucial clue. Scientists analyzing ancient DNA discovered the bacterium Yersinia ...

Deep in the northern steppe, the forested mountains and frozen lakes of Burabay State National Natural Park offer a breathtaking escape into nature. Situated in the north of Kazakhstan, three hours ...