Central Asia’s land, water, and ecosystems face extreme pressure from farming, population growth, and pollution.

The Scythians, pastoral nomads who roamed the Central Eurasian steppe zone from around the eighth century B.C., are traditionally dismissed as uncouth predators whose legacy was negative ...

Recent DNA analysis from remains excavated at sites in Hungary's Carpathian Basin has cracked open the mystery of the origins ...

Mongolia has been actively deepening its political relations with Central Asian countries – not just as a strategic pivot, but also as a form of cultural and historical reconnection.

Central Asia is a strategically significant region abundant in resources and economic potential. It can and should emerge as a hub for positive and profitable U.S. engagement. Securing critical ...

The Steppe Silk Road in the 10th to 12th Century" exhibition is officially about to open on July 11 at China National Silk ...

She was walking with her granddaughter and four-year-old great grandson through a park admiring the clothing, food, crafts, and music traditional to nomadic Central Asian Steppe cultures. The cultural ...

The 200,000 ha Central Asian steppe areas included in the property provide a valuable refuge for over half the species of the region’s steppe flora, a number of threatened bird species and the ...

In the 17th and 18th centuries, a phenomenon known as the “closure of the steppe” emerged, when “the peoples of Central and Inner Asia found themselves gradually being cut off and stuck in ...

The withdrawal of U.S. development efforts from Central Asia will leave an open field for China and Russia. When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, it ended more than a war—it ...

Rimksy-Korsakov rescued it, though, for the 1880 season with his Russian Opera Orchestra and it has since become a concert favourite. It’s not hard to see why. The music, as well as being crammed full ...

C5 integration has taken various forms, including the Central Asian Union (CAU), established in 1993 at the request of Kazakhstan’s founding president, Nursultan Nazarbayev.