The Xiongnu may have been among the ancestors of the Mongols. Their empire spanned from present-day Kazakhstan to Mongolia. Not much is known about them aside from some Chinese historical records ...

The next great Central Asian empire was the Xiongnu, who may have been the ancestors of the Huns. They arrived around the 3rd century B.C.E. and began to challenge the Chinese. There were disputes ...

Magnus Rexus Capra/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 The Xiongnu Empire formed in Mongolia in the late 3rd century BC and lasted for roughly 300 years. Unlike their contemporaries in ancient Greece ...

When China defeated the nomadic Xiongnu confederation and pushed Chinese military control northwest as far as the Tarim Basin (in the 2nd century BCE), Buddhism was known in Central Asia but was not ...

Golden icons of the sun and moon, symbols of the Xiongnu, decorating the coffin found in Elite Tomb 64 at the Takhiltiin Khotgor site, Mongolian Altai. The image may only be used in connection ...

A mass burial of battle victims from the Xiongnu period in Mongolia. The Xiongnu warriors are linked to the nomadic people who would later become known as the Huns Scientists say one of the ...

A Cultural and Political History, the anthropologist Thomas Barfield argued that Afghan society had seen stability only when ...

A study published a year later, in Science, took a similarly close look at members of the Xiongnu empire, among the first of many nomadic steppe kingdoms that arose in Eurasia and ruled over large ...

The emperor feared the Xiongnu people – a group who previously attempted to invade the Kansu province of Han Dynasty – would try to make a rally for power. The Yuezhi were the enemies of the ...

男耕女织时代，桑树在供养桑蚕的同时，也关乎人们的农事与生活。秦时，为阻止匈奴的骑兵进犯，蒙恬将军曾种下大量榆树作为军事布防。在古代，陵墓也是常见的种树场所，高木守幽室，也营造出静谧的氛围。

Depicts the rise and fall of ancient Chinese city Dunhuang's generals, warlords, monks, and Empress Wu Zetian. The Han Empire control access to the ancient Chinese desert oasis of Dun Huang, but ...

Read on to discover the lives and legacies of history's 10 largest empires... Magnus Rexus Capra/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 The Xiongnu Empire formed in Mongolia in the late 3rd century BC and ...