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 ...
garrisoned the Five Ridges and drove back the Xiongnu people more than 2,000 years ago. These terracotta warriors, horses and bronze weapons represent the high level of handicraft of the Qin Dynasty.
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 ...
garrisoned the Five Ridges and drove back the Xiongnu people more than 2,000 years ago. These terracotta warriors, horses and bronze weapons represent the high level of handicraft of the Qin Dynasty.
For example, the Mongol empire collapsed because of internal rifts and civil wars rather than external factors. The next great Central Asian empire was the Xiongnu, who may have been the ancestors of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...