An academic has used drone mapping to investigate a 3000-year-old 'mega fortress' in the Caucasus mountains, revealing details that re-shape understanding of the site and contribute to a global ...

The Boston Marathon bombing this month sent people scrambling for maps and encyclopedias after it was revealed that the suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, were ethnic Chechens with ties to ...

If you ask the average Russian to name things associated with the Caucasus, the list would probably look something like this: mountains, snow, war, Dzhigit, hill people, Islam, cuisine, hospitality ...

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 ...

DR. OSWALD'S colour-printed map of the Caucasus is on the scale of 1: 1,000,000, and covers the country from the Sea of Azov to the Caspian. We may regret that the heights are given in English feet; ...

Atmospheric photo of the site at dusk, showing the location at the convergence of two gorges. 2023 excavations of inner fortress are visible in foreground. A Cranfield University, UK, academic has ...