For archaeologists and historians today, they represent a pivot in the ancient world’s shifting balance between empire and steppe, writing and oral tradition, sedentary civilisation, and mobility.

A Soyuz spacecraft carrying one American and two Russians returned from the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday. The craft touched down Sunday morning on the Kazakh steppe, Russia's Roscosmos ...

A Soyuz Capsule With 2 Russians and 1 American Returns to Earth From the ... Pettit of U.S. space agency NASA landed on the Kazakh steppe near the city of Zhezkazgan at 6:20 a.m. (0120 GMT).