Saturday, July 04, 2026

History Highlights

Siberia’s Valley of the Kings, Where an Empire Was Buried in Gold: The Story of Arzhan

In the high steppes of Tuva, the Arzhan kurgans hold the earliest and most dazzling evidence of Scythian gold, horse sacrifice, and a lost steppe aristocracy.

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The Steppe Forts That Gave the World Its First War Chariots: The Story of Sintashta

Four thousand years ago on the Ural steppe, fortified villages produced the earliest known war chariots, advanced metallurgy, and perhaps the roots of the Indo-Iranian world.

Upper Paleolithic art: (7) Figurines from Malta in Siberia. Probably replicas. Anthropos Pavilon, Brno.

The Siberian Child Whose DNA Rewrote the Peopling of the Americas: The Story of Mal’ta

Near Lake Baikal, an Ice Age settlement left exquisite ivory figurines and a child whose DNA revealed the deep ancestry of Native Americans.

Tourists at the entrance to Denisova Cave, Russia

The Siberian Cave Where a Finger Bone Revealed a Lost Human Species: The Story of Denisova Cave

In the Altai Mountains, a cave preserved evidence of three kinds of humans and revealed the Denisovans from a single finger bone.

Man in an Upper Paleolithic burial in Sunghir, Russia. The site is approximately 28,000 to 30,000 years old

The Ice Age Children Buried With Thirty Thousand Ivory Beads: The Story of Sungir

Near Vladimir, 30,000-year-old graves adorned with tens of thousands of ivory beads revealed the astonishing culture of Ice Age hunters.