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Kazakh horses are the oldest of domestic breeds that continues to inhabit the territories of its original formation said a Russian scientist Leonid Gaiduchenko.

• 10 августа 2015, 14:34

A 3000-y.o. cauldron dated back to the Bronze Age has been discovered in eastern Kazakhstan.

• 12 октября 2014, 14:16

Bones of ice age animals have been discovered in Pavlodar Oblast in northern Kazakhstan.

• 05 августа 2014, 19:47

A Greek police officer was among nine people arrested for the suspected smuggling of ancient artefacts, including a statue valued at about one million euros, police said.

• 25 июля 2014, 12:32

One of China's renowned ancient towns was under water Wednesday as heavy rain hit the centre of the country, with tens of thousands of people evacuated from the area.

• 17 июля 2014, 03:26

An archeological park will be constructed around a medieval tower in Kazakhstan's southern city of Taraz by 2017.

• 20 апреля 2014, 22:06

A trove of ancient documents unearthed at the Vatican could shed light on the brutal crackdown on Christianity in isolationist Japan under its samurai rulers.

• 31 января 2014, 13:32

"In some cases death came immediately; in others, after many days," the historian Procopius wrote as a terrifying disease scythed through Constantinople in 542 AD.

• 28 января 2014, 15:19

Italy's culture minister assured UNESCO on Sunday that efforts were being made to restore the long-neglected Roman city of Pompeii, after the United Nations organisation urged the country to speed up repairs.

• 01 июля 2013, 16:26

The great inventor of Antiquity, Archimedes, is the star of an unprecedented exhibition opening in Rome which includes modern applications of some of his best known discoveries.

• 01 июня 2013, 11:38

Scans of mummies from as long ago as 2,000 BC have revealed that ancient people also had clogged arteries, a condition blamed on modern vices like smoking, overeating and inactivity.

• 11 марта 2013, 15:27

Peruvian archeologists have discovered a temple believed to be about 5,000 years old at the ancient El Paraiso archeological site in a valley just north of Lima.

• 13 февраля 2013, 12:23

"They are not Muslims, they are bandits!" raged Mohamed Elher Ag Abba, whose house flanks a famed archive in Timbuktu where retreating Islamists burnt priceless ancient books and manuscripts before fleeing.

• 31 января 2013, 16:59

It has been called the world's oldest recorded disease, an evil that humans have known for more than 3,500 years, as papyri from ancient Egypt testify.

• 27 января 2013, 11:07

Scientist in the United States on Sunday offered a molecular-level explanation for how a Chinese herbal medicine used for more than 2,000 years tackles fever and eases malaria.

• 24 декабря 2012, 14:30

Construction workers in Bali have discovered what is thought to be the biggest ancient Hindu temple ever found on the Indonesian island.

• 25 октября 2012, 17:01

As the battle for Aleppo closes in on the historical centre in northern Syria, heritage sites in one of the world's oldest cities are being damaged and experts fear the worst is yet to come.

• 24 августа 2012, 15:04