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The Milky Way looks serene from our vantage point, a hazy river of light arcing across the night sky. Yet the stars that make ...

A photo-report from a forgotten city, where memories of war, colonialism and cosmopolitanism linger beyond history.

Ever since eighteenth-century scholars recognized that Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit all descended from a common language, researchers have been consumed with determining who first spoke this ancient ...

Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting across its vast grasslands. They lived in a world without settlements, ...

Archaeologists found chopped dog and wolf bones scattered at the small Bronze Age settlement of Krasnosamarskoe. Around 4,000 years ago, on the steppes north of the Black Sea, a nomadic people began ...