From the mid-second century b.c. to the late first century a.d., the armies of China’s Han Dynasty (206 b.c.–a.d. 220) defended their territory against the marauding forces of the Xiongnu Empire, a ...
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A ceremony is held for the opening of the world's first Xiongnu museum in Hohhot, capital city of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on August 5. [Photo/provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The ...
Warrior nomads in Mongolia called the Xiongnu had a taste for the finer things in life, particularly gold jewelry, which they wore to their graves. Archeologists have wondered whether the gold objects ...
In an age that spawned the ancient Roman and Egyptian empires, Mongolia’s Xiongnu Empire broke the rules of imperial expansion. Long before the Mongol Empire arose, Asia’s first nomadic empire, ...
Introduction: State of Research and Future Directions of Xiongnu Studies / Ursula Brosseder, Bryan K. Miller -- Concepts of the polity -- Ethnogenesis, coevolution and political morphology of the ...
Scientists have discovered a genetic link between the Huns who ravaged Europe in the latter years of the Western Roman Empire and the Xiongnu confederacy that lived on the Mongolian steppe before ...
The world’s first nomadic empire – which battled imperial China for centuries – was very genetically diverse and not the “simple body” of people that its Han Chinese rivals long claimed, according to ...
The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...
A bird's eye view of the Xiongnu Museum in Hohhot, capital city of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on August 5. The first museum on Xiongnu, otherwise known as the Hun tribes, opened ...
A ceremony is held for the opening of the world's first Xiongnu museum in Hohhot, capital city of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on August 5. [Photo/provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The ...