Who will wake up Tamerlane: a curse that became a reality
Among ancient artifacts and tombs filled with mysteries, one of the most intriguing stories is related to Emperor Tamerlane and his tomb in Samarkand. The curse placed on his rest…
Among ancient artifacts and tombs filled with mysteries, one of the most intriguing stories is related to Emperor Tamerlane and his tomb in Samarkand. The curse placed on his rest…
One of the main arguments of deniers of invasion of Batyi to Russia is absence of archaeological finds of the Mongolian war. Mol nothing was found, so the Mongols were…
The powerful medieval Khazar state disappeared almost without a trace. For a long time it was generally considered semi-mythical. The 500-year history of the vast and powerful state in the…
The nomadic states of Central Asia regularly replaced each other, but never violating the most important principle of the nomadic world - the priority of nomadic life over sedentary habitation.…
The term "Kipchak", known in medieval Arab-Persian historiography, changed its content in the course of history: in the VIII-XI centuries it was an ethnonym of a tribal community, then, starting…
The time and circumstances in which the term "Desht-i-Kypchak" appeared, which we have replaced with "Kypchak el" or "Kypchak Khanate", have always been ambiguously interpreted in historical literature. Some authors…
The tribes of the Scythians were considered one of the most powerful forces in the territory of West Asia, the Caucasus and the Northern Black Sea region. Their main weapon…
Tokharistan and the Middle Ages … At the end of the 4th century and the first quarter of the 5th century, under the onslaught of nomadic tribes - Ephthalites, Hionites,…
It is likely that the first war in human history took place about five and a half thousand years ago. At that time, the city of Hamukar was wiped off…
As is known, the medieval kingdom of Hungary included, in addition to Hungary, the territories of all of modern Slovakia and part of Romania.436-7 The data given here about Kuns…