However, modern scholars differentiate between the “Scythians proper” of the Pontic-Caspian steppe and related but distinct peoples such as the Saka (to the east), the Massagetae, and the ...

For decades, scholars debated between the Steppe Theory, which posits that the Indo-European languages originated with the Yamnaya culture in the Pontic-Caspian steppe, and the Anatolian ...

Others see a dualistic model consisting of “the ‘low steppe’ comprising western Turkestan, the north Caspian and the south ... sometimes referred to as the Pontic, Kazakh, and Mongolian ...

and pastoralists from the Pontic-Caspian steppe who arrived around 5,000 years ago. In 2022 a research team led by Yassine Souilmi of the University of Adelaide’s Australian Center for Ancient ...

Greece marks May 19th as Pontic Greek Genocide Remembrance Day, to honor the memory of approximately 353,000 Pontians exterminated by the New Turks and the Ottoman Empire between 1916 and 1923. In one ...

Cyprus on Monday marked the Pontic Greek genocide remembrance day with strong messages from government officials and political parties, reaffirming the country’s call for global recognition of ...

and pastoralists from the Pontic-Caspian steppe who arrived around 5,000 years ago. In 2022 a research team led by Yassine Souilmi of the University of Adelaide’s Australian Center for Ancient ...

The Foreign Ministry on Monday strongly condemned statements made by Greek officials on May 19, which it described as “delusional” and incompatible with historical facts, in reference to what Athens ...

The village of Santa experienced one of the most harrowing episodes in the persecution of the Pontic Greeks during the final and most brutal phase of the Genocide after 1919. Echoing the sorrow of an ...

Athens, May 19, 2025 – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis marked the annual remembrance of the Pontic Greek Genocide with a heartfelt message on social media, honoring the thousands of Pontic ...