Well, the select club of epic walls might get another addition: the Siberia Wall in the Altai Mountains. Today, the wall system is barely visible, but it must have been truly humbling in its time.

Cultures across the globe have their version of utopia: the Garden of Eden, Elysium, Shambhala. In the heart of Eurasia, ...

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT. Vladimir Putin has headed off to a his secret mountain retreat in Siberia where he is said to have spent the week bathing "in the blood of young deer" ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the Altay Mountains of southern Siberia, some 200 miles from where Russia touches Mongolia, China, and Kazakhstan ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like ...

URUMQI, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Winter Games Around the Altai Mountains, which ended Tuesday in Altay City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, highlighted the growing bonds ...

A pinkie bone recovered from Denisova Cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains in 2010 also led to the idea of a distinct ancient human population, dubbed the Denisovans, that some people share ...