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Art Wolfe rides with a Kazakh tribesman in Mongolia. Known for its arid steppes, skilled nomadic horsemen and Genghis Khan, a visit to Mongolia feels like a trip back in time. At the annual Naadam ...
My First Impressions of Hotel Lago Grey As a first-time visitor, I was instantly whisked into the stunning beauty of the surroundings here—the main lodge sits just above the water’s edge with ...
Red Mountain landowners and the Department of Ecology contributed $1 million to balance the loss of about 1,000 acres of shrub-steppe habitat on the mountain. Each paid half.
The mountain-steppe racing horse is named after the geographical region where it was originally bred. The Karabakh horse is the result of cross-breeding and stands out with what's been described ...
Deep in the frozen north of Russia's Sakha Republic lies a place where time is being reversed and a once extinct environment is being brought back to life. How is something like this possible and ...
The site is situated in the north-east of the country in the central part of the Khentii mountain chain where the vast Central Asian steppe meets the coniferous forests of the Siberian taiga. Burkhan ...
In the Mesopotamian Sumerian cuneiform sources Jebel Bishri first appears as “the Mountain of the Amorites”. As mentioned above, the mountain steppe is the arena of the Amorite habitat, and truffles ...
Here, cultures that originated in Mesopotamia interacted with local hunter-gatherers, Anatolian farmers, and steppe populations from just north of the mountain ranges.
But what is a steppe? No, I didn’t spell it wrong. A steppe is something completely different than a step. A steppe refers to a large area with short grasses and no trees.
A jogger was left 'jumping for joy' after finding a rare 80,000-year-old baby mammoth tooth while out on a beach morning run.