International Centre of the Roerichs. The rulers of ancient and medieval Rus’ eagerly sought assistance from mercenaries, be they Scandinavian warriors or fighters from nomadic steppe tribes. The ...

Parashat Masei, the last of the book of Bamidbar, ends with the verse, “These are the commandments and regulations that the LORD enjoined upon the Israelites, through Moses, on the steppes of Moab, at ...

Nomads, while foot-loose, have not been averse to luxury. Excavations of ancient Eurasian burial sites attest to this fact. Warriors were interred with bronze arrowheads, and iron swords or daggers.

A joint excavation team has discovered the ruins of a unique monument surrounded by 14 large stone pillars with Turkic Runic inscriptions arranged in a square on the steppe called Dongoin shiree in ...

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Afterwards he found it almost impossible to describe the experience that sent him running in anguish down the rocky hillside to his wife. It seemed to him that a devastating presence had burst into ...

MR. GEORGE KENNAN was an employee of the Russo-American Telegraph Company, “or, as it was more properly called, the ' Western Union Extension,’” which was organized in the summer of 1864 for the ...