In November, Yale archaeologist William Honeychurch received the Order of the Polar Star from Mongolia — the highest civilian honor the country’s government bestows on foreign citizens. In accepting ...

The movement of herders and livestock into the eastern steppe is of great interest to researchers, but few scholars have linked the introduction of herds and horses to the rise of complex societies.

A new study is shedding light on the Gobi Wall, a massive but little-understood medieval barrier that crosses 200 miles of Mongolia's highland deserts. For their research published in the journal Land ...

Women were elite political strategists in the Xiongnu Empire, which ruled present-day Mongolia from around 209 bc to ad 100, a study suggests 1. Juhyeon Lee at Seoul National University and colleagues ...

Long obscured in the shadows of history, the world’s first nomadic empire - the Xiongnu - is at last coming into view thanks to painstaking archaeological excavations and new ancient DNA evidence.

Towering high above any of its relatives or namesakes, this caenagnathid dinosaur, unrelated to the likes of Velociraptor and Utahraptor, was a colossus of the Iren Dabasu Formation. Discovered in ...