King Wuling's mausoleum is now a cultural heritage site in Datong. Datong's ancient glory reached its apex when Pingcheng (an ancient name of the city) became the capital of the Xianbei-founded ...

The story of the civilization established by the nomadic Murong Xianbei people is being presented in the United States for the first time. Among the artifacts on display are glass cups, inkstones and ...

The story of the civilization established by the nomadic Murong Xianbei people is being presented in the United States for the first time. Among the artifacts on display are glass cups ...

The archaeological objects in the exhibition have provided revelations surrounding how the Three Yan culture, established by the Murong Xianbei people, progressed from a nomadic to an advanced ...

Statue of Daowu, emperor of Northern Wei. Credit: TAOZIlovewiki / Wikimedia Commons Instead of doing so, Taixifu placed him under the protection of Moyigan, the leader of the Xianbei tribe, who ...

The study suggests he died of a stroke at 36 and highlights Xianbei and Han Chinese intermarriage. Future research will focus on ancient Chang’an city. Credit: Pianpian Wei Researchers reconstructed ...

And genetic analysis further implies the ancestors of the emperor of the Xianbei ethnic group may have come from regions including northeastern Asia and the Yellow River Basin. The digital ...

On March 28, the appearance of Emperor Wu of the Xianbei-led Northern Zhou Dynasty (557-581), a Chinese emperor from an ethnic minority group who lived in the sixth century, was unveiled.

Emperor Wu of the Xianbei-led Northern Zhou Dynasty (557-581), also known as Yuwen Yong, was an ambitious leader who died at 36. He belonged to the Xianbei nomadic group, which originated from the ...

Emperor Wu was ethnically Xianbei, an ancient nomadic group that lived in what is Mongolia today and northern and north eastern China. Study co-author Dr Shaoqing Wen, of Fudan University in ...