Only further archaeological and genetic discoveries can clarify how Xiongnu people in the imperial core responded to those setbacks. Whatever happened, Asia’s first nomadic empire can likely be ...

An ancient mass grave excavated in southern Mongolia contains the bodies of dismembered Han warriors who fought the nomadic Xiongnu people in the second century B.C., a chemical analysis reveals ...

The Han-Xiongnu Wars were a series of bloody conflicts between the Chinese Han Empire and the nomadic Xiongnu people. The two groups clashed as early as 200 B.C.E., ...

“‘Xiongnu’ was the name of a dynasty not a people, per se; but that dynastic regime greatly impacted the peoples within its realms and left a powerful legacy in Eurasia,” he said via email.

An ancient nomadic tribe, the Xiongnu people lived throughout what is today northern China and Central Asia during the Spring and Autumn Period (770BC-476BC), archaeologist Wang Meng, ...

The ability to ride horses and shoot the bow was one of the Xiongnu's main skills. "Some people call horses the ships of the land, because ships and horses were some of the fastest travel that ...

And when the tribes of the Xiongnu people were still pillaging China’s frontiers around 130 B.C., the Han court provided the tribes’ rivals with silk in return for a special type of swifter, stronger ...

XINJIANG, China , July 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Born in Urumqi, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, writer Li Dong has long been enchanted with the historical culture of his ...

Ancient DNA, combined with the fruits of recent archaeological digs, is spilling the secrets of one of the ancient world’s most powerful political forces.

Ancient DNA, combined with the fruits of recent archaeological digs, is spilling the secrets of one of the ancient world’s most powerful political forces.