From the mid-second century b.c. to the late first century a.d., the armies of China’s Han Dynasty (206 b.c.–a.d. 220) defended their territory against the marauding forces of the Xiongnu Empire, a ...

On 17 February 2026, the Year of the Snake will turn into the Year of the Horse for Lunar New Year – also known as Chinese ...

In 2025, the world marked another sad milestone in the ongoing loss of biodiversity: multiple species long missing from their habitats were officially declared extinct on the International Union for ...

A plague that swept through Eurasia for 2,000 years – millennia before the Black Death of the Middle Ages – has only ever been detected in human remains, until now. For decades, it has been unclear ...

Excavations of a lost city in Kazakhstan date the site to 1600 B.C.E. and show a remarkably and surprisingly well-developed urban center. The city of Semiyarka was likely a regional center for the ...

Twenty years after its discovery, archaeologists are finally revealing the secrets of Semiyarka, a Bronze Age settlement in Kazakhstan that may have been a center of exchange and power around 1600 B.C ...

Today all that’s left of the ancient city of Semiyarka are a few low earthen mounds and some scattered artifacts, nearly hidden beneath the waving grasses of the Kazakh Steppe, a vast swath of ...

A new survey reveals the Bronze Age city of Semiyarka to span 350-acres, three times larger than previously thought. The newly confirmed size reframes the narrative of nomadic societies in northern ...

(CNN) — Upon the open grasslands of what is now Kazakhstan, there once stood a Bronze Age settlement that may have served as a center of exchange and power around 1600 BC. The settlement — called ...

Archaeologists are shining light on a remarkable 3,500-year-old settlement on the Kazakh Steppe, believed to have been a major hub for large-scale bronze production, which is shaking up our ...