As the years passed, the Mongol Empire began to crumble under the weight of internal divisions and external pressures. The ...

A massive genetic study of 156 ancient genomes shows that the Sarmatians who settled in the Carpathian Basin came from the Urals and Kazakhstan—and survived the Huns’ arrival. A new genetic study has ...

How Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Timur and the nomadic peoples of the steppes shaped their empires and our modern world.

Nomads, while foot-loose, have not been averse to luxury. Excavations of ancient Eurasian burial sites attest to this fact. Warriors were interred with bronze arrowheads, and iron swords or daggers.

THIS book deals mainly with the little-known Lolo and neighbouring tribes in western China, who are believed to represent some of the pre-Chinese aborigines of that empire. The journey into the ...