Shards of Mongolia

05/06/2024

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/06/240605162547.htm

Bronze cauldrons were used by the inhabitants of the Mongolian steppe around 2,700 years ago to process animal blood and milk. This is shown by a protein analysis of archaeological finds from this period.

15/02/2024

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/02/240214203357.htm

A new study explores the weight great fossil sites have on our understanding of evolutionary relationships between fossil groups and quantified the power these sites have on our understanding of evolutionary history. Surprisingly, the authors discovered that the wind-swept sand deposits of the Late....

12/02/2024

https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-mongolia-leader-shares-empire-map-mock-putin-ukraine-claims-2024-2

The former leader of Mongolia Tsakhia Elbegdorj wrote: "After Putin's talk. I found Mongolian historic map. Don't worry. We are a peaceful and free nation."

14/12/2023

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/12/231213143709.htm

The high-altitude hero of the Himalayas, yak are among the few large animals that can survive the extremely cold, harsh and oxygen-poor conditions of the Tibetan Plateau. In the mountainous regions of Asia, yak and yak-cattle hybrids serve as vital sources of meat, milk, transportation and fuel. How...

12/12/2023

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/12/231212131053.htm

Recovered from looters, a new archaeological discovery from a cave in western Mongolia could change the story of the evolving relationship between humans and horses around the world. 

25/09/2023

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/09/230922141247.htm

A new study appearing in Science Advances compares Pleistocene vegetation communities around Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, to the oldest archeological traces of Homo sapiens in the region. The researchers use the 'remarkable evidence' to tell a compelling story from 45,000-50,000 years ago with ne...

04/09/2023

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/03/pope-mongolia-china-catholic-mass-00113856

“I ask Chinese Catholics to be good Christians and good citizens,” he said.

23/06/2023

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/06/230621003106.htm

The distant ancestors of modern horses had hooved toes instead of a single hoof, which vanished over time, according to researchers.

02/06/2023

https://boingboing.net/2023/06/02/bohemian-rhapsody-was-first-called-mongolian-rhapsody-per-freddie-mercurys-personal-notes.html

In an enlightening revelation from the annals of rock history, Freddie Mercury’s personal scribblings reveal that the Queen hit “Bohemian Rhapsody” was initially called “Mon…

10/05/2023

Scientists have used mitochondrial DNA to trace a female lineage from northern coastal China to the Americas. By integrating contemporary and ancient mitochondrial DNA, the team found evidence of at least two migrations: one during the last ice age, and one during the subsequent melting period. Arou...

19/04/2023

The question of how prehistoric populations obtained sustainable food in the barren heights of the Tibetan Plateau has long attracted academic and popular interest. A new study highlights the critical role of dairy pastoralism in opening the plateau up to widespread, long-term human habitation.

16/04/2023

The Xiongnu, contemporaries of Rome and Egypt, built their nomadic empire on the Mongolian steppe 2,000 years ago, emerging as Imperial China's greatest rival and even inspiring the construction of China's Great Wall. In a new study, researchers find that the Xiongnu were a multiethnic empire, with....

03/04/2023

For the first time, researchers have pinpointed a date when elite Mongol Empire people were drinking yak milk, according to a new study.

06/03/2023

The earliest evidence of horse riders has likely been found by an international team of archaeologists and bioanthropologists.

20/02/2023

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230217152312.htm

Scientists develop testing model to enhance understanding of a condition known as 'third window syndrome.'

03/12/2022

Wolf domestication occurred earlier than proposed until now, at least in western Europe. That possibility is raised by the results of the study of the humerus found in the Erralla cave (Gipuzkoa, Spain) in 1985.

22/10/2022

A new study on early human migration shows that semi-arid and desert zones of Central Asia may have served as key areas for the dispersal of hominins into Eurasia during the Middle Pleistocene. Central Asia is positioned at a crossroads linking several zones important to hominin dispersal during thi...

27/09/2022

"Lots of uncertainty about the Future," a Finnish Board Guard official said on Monday, as Russians flee Putin's military mobilization announcement.

06/08/2022

A Turkish and Mongolian excavation team says sw****ka patterns on 13th-century ruins are a possible link to Genghis Khan's grandson, reports Live Science.