Food culture along the Silk Road
Like passionate foodies who know the best places to eat in every town, Silk Road nomads may have been the gastronomic elites of the Medieval Ages, enjoying diets much more diverse than their sedentary urban counterparts, suggests a new study in Scientific Reports.
Digging Kazakhstan’s past helps students find themselves
Much more than an archaeology course, a six-week
summer field practicum on the history of Central Asia, led by Michael Frachetti, PhD, associate professor of archaeology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, offers students
from all disciplines the opportunity to immerse themselves in the past and present culture of Kazakhstan.