Barren yet beautiful, the moonscapes of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert are an alluring world of steppes, boreal forest, sand and rock ...

On his feet were specially made reindeer-skin shaman boots. He’s a Darhad, one of the ethnic groups indigenous to northern Mongolia, next to the Russian border. Numbering some 20,000 ...

The mystics call them the "weapons of the gods." The Kremlin quickly dismissed claims linking Putin's Mongolia visit to shamanic consultations, calling it "untrue." However, his history of ...

My Mongolian calendar for the trip was surprisingly full. I had an appointment with a shaman. I planned to search for wild horses and visit eagle hunters. In between, I would look for myself ...

His journey even recently took him to the steppes of Mongolia, where he worked with shamans there. Shamanism is one of the world’s oldest religions and healing traditions with evidence of ...