This is a great burial mound (Kurgan) from the Bronze Age in the Caspian Steppe. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

At that time, one particular horse lineage became dominant, they found. It emerged from the Pontic-Caspian steppe—a region of plains that stretches through modern-day Belarus, Ukraine and Russia ...

between the Black and the Caspian Seas, connects Europe, the Near East and Asia. It displays a huge geographic, ecological, economic, cultural, and linguistic range today, from the steppe zone in ...

But all domestic horses come from the Pontic-Caspian Steppe of Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Russia in the third millennium. Now researchers have pinpointed exactly when this horse took over and the Age ...

FeatureThe Caspian Sea's water levels have dropped over ... The water lies at the end of a sandy track that crosses a steppe that is as dry as it is flat. "The climate here is difficult.