Ever since this 12th century blade was discovered under a tree in 1975, archeologists have wondered how it got all the way from Sweden to Siberia. A controversial new theory suggests it belonged to ...

Russia’s conquest of Siberia was not a slow drift eastward — it was a hard, relentless campaign led by Cossack fighters armed with firearms the locals had never seen. Over a few decades, they crushed ...

Back in 1975, an excavation team by archaeologist Vyacheslav Molodin unearthed by accident a medieval sword under a tree in the Novosibirsk region. The sword, it turns out, could've belonged to Ivan ...

Following the trail of Siberian pioneers, archaeologists from the University of Tyumen have investigated the camp on Karachinsky Island, the Lower Tobol River, and confirmed the high speed of the ...