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 ...

The Scythians are known as a group of horse-warrior nomad cultures that lived in the Eurasian steppe around the transition to the Iron Age, during the first millennium BCE. The Scythians had a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Out in the wilds of the Mongolian steppe, nomadic herders are embracing the information age. In this excerpt from his book “The Wolf Economy Awakens”, author Johan Nylander looks at how the internet ...

Astana, Kazakhstan – Clouds of dust rise from the sandy ground of a playing field as a dozen horses converge, their riders standing in their stirrups as they direct their mounts towards an odd target: ...

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 ...