Archaeologists excavating the Almalyk-dere necropolis in Crimea recently uncovered a trove of gold and silver jewelry in ...

(Courtesy Andrey Belinski) Russian archaeologist Andrey Belinski wasn’t sure what to expect when he found himself facing a small mound in a farmer’s field at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains.

In 1978, a year before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Russian archaeologist Viktor Ivanovich Sarianidi began digging at the Tillya Tepe site in northern Afghanistan, which archaeologists ...

Warrior burial, Taman Peninsula, Russia(Courtesy of the Institute of Archaeology/Russian Academy of Sciences) Archaeologists have discovered a bronze Corinthian helmet in the burial of several ...

Cossacks were known as servants of the state or, in Russian - Sluzhilyye Lyudi. These servants of the state played a key role in Siberian settlement by Russians. The Cossacks, a translation of the ...

The Buryats are a group of peoples who prior to the arrival of Russian influence in Siberia were a nomadic herding people. They spoke a Mongol language and initially showed a strong resistance to ...