A study of the Tamir necropolis in Mongolia has revealed that social status and power played a stronger role than biological kinship in shaping the organization of an elite Xiongnu cemetery. 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 ...

Born in Urumqi, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, writer Li Dong has long been enchanted with the historical culture of his birthplace. The region was once a thoroughfare for the ...

Long obscured in the shadows of history, the world's first nomadic empire—the Xiongnu—is at last coming into view thanks to painstaking archaeological excavations and new ancient DNA evidence. Arising ...

In the ancient Mongolian Xiongnu tribe, women were held in high regard and were the reason for their people's success. One major misconception throughout history is that men have always been the ones ...

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 ...

With no cities or courts, the formidable and nomadic Xiongnu kingdom sent princess emissaries to control its frontiers. The raiders came from the north. They came on horseback, the skilled bowmen ...

Urumqi, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, writer Li Dong has long been enchanted with the historical culture of his birthplace. The region was once a thoroughfare for the ancient ...

A new study examining ancient DNA has shed new light on the multiethnic structure of Mongolia’s first nomadic empire, the Xiongnu. The research is published in Science Advances. Inhabiting the ...

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 birthplace.