An international research team, coordinated by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH) and the Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Berlin, is ...

This month Goygol, a town nestled in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, celebrates its 200th anniversary. Yet this is no ordinary Azerbaijani town. Goygol used to be Helenendorf. And it was ...

Residents of Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia are commemorating the victims of the 1944 Soviet deportation of Ingush and Chechens from the North Caucasus to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

A group of scientists from the I nstitute of Archaeology RAS, NRC "Kurchatov Institute" and other scientific organizations for the first time have carried out a genetic analysis of the remains from ...

A research led by scientists from the University of Vienna and Harvard University describes the role of a previously unidentified prehistoric population in shaping the linguistic landscape that ...

In the Bronze Age, the Caucasus Mountains region was a cultural and genetic contact zone. Here, cultures that originated in Mesopotamia interacted with local hunter-gatherers, Anatolian farmers, and ...