The Greater Caucasus mountain range stretches between the Black and Caspian Seas across parts of Russia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. These formidable peaks are the result of the subduction of the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a massive Bronze Age fortress called Dmanisis Gora in the Caucasus Mountains, revealing it is 40 times larger than previously thought. The fortress features inner and ...

After a night of snowfall—the first of the season in Svaneti, a region high in Georgia’s Caucasus Mountains—the day has broken with icy clarity. Suddenly visible above the village of ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

A new study reveals fresh clues about Indo-European language origins, tracing an ancestral group's key role in their spread.

I still do multiday treks at altitude in the Andes and Caucasus mountains, but I follow some hard rules to keep myself safe. Altitude psychosis on the mountain I first glimpsed Huayna Potosí ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

Tetnuldi (4858 m) SW Ridge, Caucasus (Traynard S4/S5 ... and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It also contains technical information on equipment, book and video reviews, expert advice, ...

“It’s because of the mountains and tough conditions to live ... Barsegian also points to the harsh climate of the Caucasus as a factor in the grit of fighters from the region, as well as ...

Ukraine struck energy facilities in southern Russia with dozens of drones launched on Monday, triggering fires at a major oil refinery and gas processing plant and disrupting flights from the Volga to ...

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