Over twelve days last month, I found myself immersed in Georgian culture deep in the Caucasus Mountains with my friend and ...

“Socks are key. Dry socks in fact. They’re the most important thing you need to pack,” my guide Giorgi says nonchalantly. “You should never go hiking without an extra pair.” I nod approvingly but ...

Gamsutl is an ancient abandoned village perched high on a rocky mountain ridge in Dagestan, Russia. Built entirely from stone ...

KAZBEGI, Georgia -- The picturesque road that climbs vertiginously through the Caucasus Mountains leads to Stepantsminda, a small town where traditionally the stylish hotels serve as a starting-off ...

In the Bronze Age, the Caucasus Mountains region was a cultural and genetic contact zone. Here, cultures that originated in Mesopotamia interacted with local hunter-gatherers, Anatolian farmers, and ...

From a geographical point of view, the Caucasus is far from an island or even a peninsula, being a relatively big mountainous region appearing as a fence at the border of Europe and Asia, situated ...