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Mongolia
The extreme wet and dry periods Mongolia has experienced in the late 20th and early 21st centuries are rare but not unprecedented and future droughts may be no worse, according to an international re…
The history and archaeology of Mongolia, most famously the sites associated with the largest land empire in the history of the world under Ghengis Khan, are of global importance. But they're faci…
Researchers led by Nagoya University discover penetrative trace fossils from the late Ediacaran of western Mongolia, revealing earlier onset of the “agronomic revolution”. This bedding surface was on…
The simple story says that during the last ice age, temperatures were colder and ice sheets expanded around the planet. That may hold true for most of Europe and North America, but new research from …
Scientists once could reconstruct humanity's distant past only from the mute testimony of ancient settlements, bones, and artifacts. The use of stylized bell-shaped pots like this one from Sieren…
The Khermen Tal site is located in Ogiinuur Sum, Arkhangai Province, Mongolia. The site is attributed to the Xiongnu, a nomadic tribe that made its first appearance in northern Eurasia in the third c…
A joint excavation team from Osaka University and the Institute of History and Archaeology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences discovered the ruins of a unique monument surrounded by 14 large stone …
An exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia unites an unexpected combination of features that defines a new group of semi-aquatic predators related to Velociraptor. Detailed 3D sy…
