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 on the Mongolian steppe 1,500 ...

A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been ...

1125 AD) and the rise of the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan in 1206 AD has historically ... The discovery of this tomb at a site known as “Cluster 27” within the ancient fortified complex of Khar ...

An ancient Mongolian cemetery was recently excavated ... indicate aristocratic individuals in the Mongol Empire were buried at the site, researchers said. “The dragon on the robe with five ...

rediscovered a collection of artifacts from an ancient burial site dating back to the times of Genghis Khan's Mongol Empire. The artifacts, which include Mongolian arrowheads known as Sryzni ...

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.

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 ...