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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

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

• 20 апреля 2014, 22:06

In Kenya's national museum, wide-eyed school children gaze at blackened skeletons of long gone ancestors, 1.5 million-year-old remains that provide key lessons today for modern teachers of mankind's origin.

• 30 октября 2013, 10:00

The earliest iron artefacts ever found -- funeral beads strung around bodies in a 5,000-year-old Egyptian cemetery -- were made from a meteorite.

• 20 августа 2013, 18:56

Over a hundred "burial jars" and a dozen coffins arranged on a ledge in remote Cambodian jungle have for centuries held the bones -- and secrets -- of a mysterious people who lived alongside with the Angkor era.

• 03 июля 2013, 10:32

Over four millennia ago, the fortress town of Gonur-Tepe might have been a rare advanced civilisation before it was buried for centuries under the dust of the Kara Kum desert in remote western Turkmenistan.

• 06 апреля 2013, 18:01

Seen by some as emblematic of the Mediterranean landscape and cuisine, the olive tree in fact has its domesticated roots in Kurdish regions, said a study Wednesday that seeks to settle an age-old debate.

• 06 февраля 2013, 11:47

Thousands of years ago, long before Spanish conquistadores raided Mexico, ancient people carved circles, spirals and drawings of bow hunters into volcanic rocks dotting a Pacific beach.

• 07 декабря 2012, 10:27

Scientist and professor of Al-Farabi Kazakhstan National University suggested that primitive people lived at the territory of Almaty oblast over 35 thousand years ago.

• 10 августа 2011, 18:21