Where Huns' Blood Drew
It is in fact a long time that our knowledge of the Huns has not been satisfactory due to the mainstream scholars using exclusively the Byzantine and European — occasionally the Arabic — sources for their researches.
A Roman Legion Lost in China
The battle of Carrhae ended fifty-three years before the birth of Jesus Christ, on the last day of May. It was a shameful disaster for the Roman army: seven legions with the strength of 45,000 men were humiliated and routed by 10,000 Parthian archers.
A Roman Legion Lost in China
The battle of Carrhae ended fifty-three years before the birth of Jesus Christ, on the last day of May. It was a shameful disaster for the Roman army: seven legions with the strength of 45,000 men were humiliated and routed by 10,000 Parthian archers.
The Silk Road in Late Antiquity: Politics, Trade, and Culture Contact between Rome and China, 300-700 CE
This is a study of the modes of political and cultural communication which led to a rare level of ‘intervisibility’ between the various societies and states along the Silk Road in the Late Antique period (roughly 300-700 CE).
Vision, Folly and Balance: Imperial Approaches to Commerce and War in the Roman Near East, 27 BCE
When Emperor Marcus Aurelius died on the banks of the Danube in 180 CE at Vindobona, or Vienna, the Roman Empire he left behind was the largest transcontinental, transcultural, singular political entity in history before the rise of the European nation state some fifteen centuries later.
First Iranian military units in the army of Alexander the Great
This article seeks to analyze not only the numbers but also the place accorded to Iranian troops in Alexander
The oriental context for the end of Greek rule in the Hellenistic Age
This work is an account of Seleucid history from 280 to roughly 100 B.C., with a summary account of the end of Seleucid Rule down to its extinction under Pompey for the sake of completeness
Descendants of Alexander the Great's army fought in ancient China, historian finds
A recent article is examining the possibility that a contingent of soldiers from the Mediterranean fought at the Battle of Talas River in 36 BC, but instead of being Roman forces, new research suggests they may have been descendants of the armies of Alexander the Great.
The Origin of Chess and the Silk Road
The Origin of Chess and the Silk Road Horst Remus The Silk Road Foundation Newsletter: Vol.1:1 (2003) Abstract The classical research about the origin…
Power Politics in the Xiongnu Empire
This thesis employs an integrated approach of the historical and archaeological evidence relevant to the study of the Xiongnu empire (3rd century BC – 1st century AD).