Site was a place of religious sacrifices by ancient man up to 60,000 years ago, believe experts.
Extraordinary Bronze Age graves unearthed in Siberia: but could there be a macabre explanation?
Leading Russian scientist remains unshaken in view that it was Denisovans despite growing doubts from Western experts.
Tantalising studies now underway to establish if one of two carcases preserved by permafrost has traces of world's oldest mother's milk.
Alexander Smelov, 55, killed in his office in Yakutsk.
Twice as old as the Egyptian Pyramids, samples of the Shigir Idol are sent to Germany for testing.
Pictures show child from Middle Ages as he is unwrapped after his remains were 'accidentally preserved' close to Arctic.
Implements or weapons made of quartz and quartzite unearthed among tons of bones under a Siberian village called... Mammoth.
Demands increased on 3 August for a 'state of emergency' to be declared on the world's fifth longest river due to a catastrophic shortage of water.