ancient artifacts, europe, new discoveries, nomads
How do we understand past societies? For centuries, our primary sources of information about ancient Europe have been pottery sherds, burial sites, and ancient texts. However, the study of ancient DNA is changing what we know about the human past and what we can know. In a new study, we analyzed the genetics of hundreds ...
Australia is the world’s driest inhabited continent. Almost 70 percent of the mainland is arid or semi-arid, receiving less than 19.7 inches (500 millimeters) of rainfall annually. Drought is often endemic, but the current condition is one of the most severe in modern history. Drought has devastated cattle ranches, sheep farms, and swaths of arable ...
When visiting Mongolia, many people tend to keep to the capital city of Ulaanbaatar and other urban regions. But beyond these areas lie the interiors where grasslands, deserts, and the lives of the nomads can give you a very unique experience of life. Mongolian interiors Nomads typically live in a ger, which is a structure ...