People built walls around their huts ... Professor Andrey Borodovsky, an archaeologist working in the Altai Mountains in eastern Russia, says that it may have measured eight meters high, and ...

In the Altay Mountains of southern Siberia, some 200 miles from where Russia touches Mongolia ... only fossil evidence so far of the enigmatic people known as the Denisovans.

What it is: An ornamental plush figurine of a swan made from reindeer felt and filled with reindeer wool Where it is from: The Pazyryk Valley in the Altai Mountains of Russian Siberia When it was ...