In the late 4th century, a powerful nomadic force emerged in Europe, upending the region's political and social order. The ...

Women warriors appear in myths across the world. Yet historical sources and archaeological finds show the female warrior is ...

New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 ...

"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an ...

Crusader Kings III is the sequel to the classic grand strategy game about medieval conquest, intrigue, religion and high drama.

In the new study, lead author Guido Gnecchi-Ruscone, an archaeogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, and colleagues split their genetic dataset into three ...

The Mongolian steppe is part of the Eurasian steppes, a vast belt of grassland extending from eastern Europe through western and central Asia to northeast Asia. A temperate biome, steppes are found in ...

They also discovered evidence of contact between southern Siberian and western Eurasian steppe populations from the presence of Eastern European steppe-related ancestry in the time before the Bronze ...

The so-called steppe hypothesis, formulated during the 19th century and formalized in the 1950s, postulated that speakers of the ancestor language of the Indo-European group lived on the Eurasian ...

James Johnson is an anthropological archaeologist specializing in Bronze and Iron Age pastoralist societies of the Eurasian steppe, ca. 2100 – 200 BCE. His primary project, the Uy River Valley ...