Princesses have played crucial roles in the organization and structure of empires throughout history, yet their contributions have often been overlooked. From the Greeks to the Mughals to the Mongols, ...
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 ...
Illustration by ZME Science/Midjourney AI. The Huns were a nomadic people whose sudden and ferocious arrival in the late 4th century sent shockwaves through the ...
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 ...
Visitors take a camel trek into the desert of the Hexi Corridor in Gansu province, a region famed for its wealth of historical sites and a variety of natural landscapes. CHINA DAILY Editor's note: ...
At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...
Several skeletons of Han soldiers unearthed from a mass grave at Bayanbulag, an ancient Han fortress in Mongolia. Credit: Ma et al. / CC BY-NC 4.0 Archaeologists in southern Mongolia have uncovered a ...
The Han-Xiongnu Wars were fought over the course of two centuries (133 B.C. to A.D. 89). Battles between the Chinese civilization and the nomadic Xiongnu erupted on the Mongolian Plateau, and the ...
In the late fourth century, a group of warriors began encroaching upon the borders of the Roman Empire. They were the Huns, and within a few decades—led by the notorious king Attila—they would battle ...