The German president was today honouring Vyacheslav Molodin, deputy director of Novosibirsk Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography.
Find-of-the-year by Novosibirsk archeologists is a toy that entertained prehistoric babies.
Petroglyphs some 7,000 years older than earlier thought with ancients artists using same style in Siberia and Mongolia.
Extraordinary Bronze Age graves unearthed in Siberia: but could there be a macabre explanation?
5,000 year old site used for fish processing but also rituals which remain a 'huge mystery' involving wolverines and ermine.
Intrigue over how German-made 12th century blade, adorned in Sweden, reached Siberia.
Archaeologists intrigued by discovery of Bronze Age razor blade in Novosibirsk region.
But who were the mysterious Paleolithic artists of these rock drawings?
'Absolutely stunning' ancient ornaments discovered with no known comparisons, presenting a puzzle for archeologists: which culture made this?