Wooden statue 5.3m high with eight faces gazed over the water for only two decades, but leaves us with a conundrum 11,600 years later.

For hundreds of years visitors to this Arctic outpost have been frightened by terrifying totems and human sacrifices. 

Samples taken from cubs frozen in permafrost for at least 12,000 years.

Your guide is the Chairman of the Tuva Republic's government, Sholban Kara-Ool.

Remarkable images show a test tube blood sample from a female of the long-extinct species. 

Previously unknown subspecies confirmed by DNA tests and probably numbering around 400.

Scientific breakthrough on DNA pinpoints mankind’s expansion across planet – and moment of interbreeding with Neanderthals.

Over 300 years old, the 'jetons' - used in lieu of coins or for counting - were found along with artifacts hoarded by the Northern Selkups.