A nomadic empire dominated the Asian steppes for three centuries from 200 BC, trading goods on the Silk Road, building elaborate tombs for its dead and conquering distant lands on horseback. Known ...

April 7 - August 19, 2007 Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation presents for the first time a major sampling of steppe art from the renowned collections of the ...

For centuries, the tribes of the Asian steppes have often had their fate determined by two great powers, Russia and China, and a new era begins for the Tunshan in the 1930s, when they learn of ...

“She was also laid to rest with Chinese silk garments and pieces of intricately decorated Chinese bronze mirrors, a practice common among Xiongnu steppe elites,” Bryan Miller, project archaeologist ...