A routine fire patrol, operating some 200 miles northwest of the country's capital, Astana, discovered a nearly foot-long ...

Balbals are found throughout the Kazakh steppe. In the Karkaraly and Bayanaul mountains, chains of 300 to 350 balbals once ...

Situated in Western Kazakhstan, the valley is far from major population centers and remains difficult to access. This has kept research to a minimum, despite the growing interest in these ancient ...

Tlendiyev died on Oct. 15, 1998. He was named a People’s Artist of the USSR and awarded Kazakhstan’s highest honor, Halyk ...

In a discovery that seems straight out of a historical thriller, a mysterious stone carving of a human face has been unearthed in Kazakhstan ... the secrets of this ancient artifact.

A traditional sheepskin coat blows in the wind in Turtkul, Uzbekistan, on a highway that follows the ancient Silk Road ... a snack at a truck stop diner in Kazakhstan’s oil-rich Mangghystau ...