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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The skeletal remains of a horse are unearthed from the mausoleum of Emperor Wen of the Western Han Dynasty in Xi'an, Shaanxi province. CHINA DAILY A recent advanced DNA study on horse bones unearthed ...

A pair of wooden lions carved in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) during Dunhuang's decline. ERIK NILSSON/CHINA DAILY The Dunhuang Museum is a newfound fount of history in Gansu province's desert — an ...

As we have already explained in other articles, the Xiongnu were a confederation of nomadic peoples who inhabited the eastern steppes, roughly in the area of present-day Mongolia, and lived between ...

Mongolia, the world's second-largest landlocked country, spans 1.5 million square kilometers. Yet, over 50% of its population—approximately 1.7 million people—reside in Ulaanbaatar, a city that ...

A linguistic study proves that the European Huns and their Asian ancestors spoke the same Palaeo-Siberian language. This result refutes the previously assumed Turkish origin of the Huns / publication ...

A recent linguistic study jointly conducted by Dr. Svenja Bonmann from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cologne and Dr. Simon Fries from the Faculties of Classics and of Linguistics, ...

New linguistic findings show that the European Huns had Paleo-Siberian ancestors and do not, as previously assumed, originate from Turkic-speaking groups. The joint study was conducted by Dr. Svenja ...

On the River Yelogui, a tributary of the Yenisei in Siberia. A few speakers of a Yenisei language, Ket, still live in the region. The language of the European Huns belonged to the same language family ...

An archaeological discovery in Mongolia reveals the remains of Han warriors, victims of a brutal execution more than two millennia ago. This find sheds new light on burial practices and conflicts ...