Vladimir Tretchikoff's iconic painting "Lady from the Orient" has sold for more than $1.7m in a new world record for the ...

For quite some time, there's usually been a sense of certainty at the French Open. That was particularly so on the men's side, with Rafael Nadal ruling over the red clay of Roland-Garros the way no ...

In the remote valleys of western Mongolia, near the snow-capped Altai mountains, I meet Khaiyr Galym, a traditional Kazakh eagle hunter. Despite the language barrier, I am given a holistic insight ...

as well as Kazakhstan’s Azamat Nigmanov. Number 2 is a sequel to Number 1, which earned Lee a nomination for Best Leading Actor at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards in 2020. The win in Macau was ...

a hallmark of steppe art. “This style has been preserved mainly in jewelry. Patterns decorated all household items, especially in funeral rites, saddles, various horse harness decorations, and ...

During this search one site in particular drew renewed interest: Botai, located in northern Kazakhstan ... to studying the past paint a much clearer picture of horse domestication than we ...

For Guimet’s director, art historian Yannick Lintz ... Botai culture and the domestication of the horse. Botai culture was a society in northern Kazakhstan that emerged around 4 BCE and ...

There’s an entire section for different types of horse meat ... the eclectic Abilkhan Kasteev State Art Museum is the nation’s primary showcase of Kazakh creations, from paintings and ...

An Uzbek rider reached for the goat, and a Kazakh horse head hit him in the jaw ... It was the golden age of astronomy, math, art and poetry as intellectuals and artists moved here.

Unlike many city breaks, an Astana itinerary won’t be packed with art galleries ... ‘Beshbarmak’ is a traditional Kazakh dish of horse meat served with a pasta-type noodle and onions.

Horses, another symbol of Kazakhstan, are certainly beloved here ... But just a short distance from the visitor’s centre and I could already make out nature’s works of art under an early moon. I must ...

It had a broom-bristle mane and a wedge-shaped head, an equine silhouette more often found in a cave painting than on a ... seemed very impossible; those horses are critically endangered.” ...