Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting ...

After a night of snowfall—the first of the season in Svaneti, a region high in Georgia’s Caucasus Mountains—the day ... to sift for gold in the rivers, Strabo also fueled speculation that ...

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

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

For decades, fraught geopolitics and poorly marked trails gave all but the most intrepid hikers pause about the Caucasus Mountains, an area known for its jaw-dropping geography. But the ...

With a richly diverse natural landscape—from the vertiginous mountain peaks of the Caucasus to the balmy rainforests ... Whitewater Rafting along the Rioni River In recent years, western Georgia ...

Researchers used drone imagery to analyze the full scope of a massive, 3,000-year-old fortress in the Caucasus mountains. Digitally stitching together 11,000 images, they created a complete map of ...