In the vast steppes of Kazakhstan, archaeologists have uncovered something never seen before: a 4,000-year-old hexagonal pyramid. Made of stacked stone with upright corner monoliths, this Bronze Age ...

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

After spending nearly $50 billion to expand the country’s Tengiz oil field, the American oil giant and its partners encounter ...

ASTANA – Kazakh musicians, including a symphony orchestra, a chamber choir, and a ballet troupe, will perform at the 35th ...

A global journey through cities beginning with the letter “A,” showcasing iconic capitals, historic ports, cultural hubs, and ...

Pontic Greek, which closely resembles Ancient Greek still lives on today, in communities near Turkey's Black Sea coast.

On a crisp January evening in Delhi, as winter settled gently over the capital, a familiar divine love story unfolded far from its traditional geography. At Baansera Park—an urban island of bamboo and ...

ASTANA – The Astana Times has selected articles from global media outlets covering Kazakhstan. This week’s foreign media ...

Göbeklitepe, the 12,000-year-old archaeological site in Şanlıurfa, Türkiye, often called the “zero point of history,” has ...

Kaindy Lake, a “sunken forest” in the heart of Kazakhstan’s Tien Shan mountains, was formed when an earthquake caused a flood in the valley in 1911. “The trees died, but their trunks remain,” says my ...

These thirty remarkable discoveries from 2024-2025 represent only a fraction of the archaeological treasures emerging from soil, sand, and sea around the world. Each find adds another piece to the ...

The waning gibbous moon shines close to the "kingly" star Regulus on Jan. 5-6, and some well-placed stargazers will even see ...