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There's a reason the Mongolian people consume not just large amounts of meat but high quantities of lamb and goat. About 40% of the population is nomadic — they don't have permanent homes.
The stories of Mongolia’s WWII heroes are deeply ingrained in the nation’s cultural fabric. But in an age of great power ...
Hiking here will allow adventurers to witness unique geological formations like the Flaming Cliffs, famous for dinosaur ...
The country’s seminomadic herders have used tentlike, portable homes for millennia. Photographer Matt Dutile visited a few to ...
In the windswept steppe of northeastern Mongolia, archaeologists have unearthed a rare window into daily life along the ...
I'm at the Ten Thousand Camel Festival, an annual celebration of the fluffy golden-haired Bactrian camel, which is found almost exclusively on the central Eurasian Steppe.
For the past few years, Central Asian states focused on settling border disputes and forging stronger trade connections among ...
Some of the earliest nomadic empires — coalitions of tribes under a leader, a khan or khagan — formed in Mongolia, and starting with the Xiongnu in the 3rd century BCE, bore down on China.