For thousands of years, a Kazakh tribe has trained Golden Eagles to capture foxes for food and furs. They still do. For thousands of years, a Kazakh tribe has trained Golden Eagles in the region ...

ASTANA — For centuries, Kazakh nomads have revered animals that shaped their way of life, traditions and beliefs. Wolves ...

Aleksei Levshin, who conducted the Russian Empire’s first ethnographic study of Kazakhs in 1832, wrote that he could not “decide what the Kazakhs are.” He did not know what to make of informants who ...

Explores the formation of the Kazakh state after the death of Genghis Khan, as sultans Kerei and Janibek ally with nomadic tribes to overthrow a usurping descendant of Khan, seeking a better life ...