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Nearly 180 Ancient Coins Trace Hunnic and Turkic Rule From Central Asia to India
Ancient coins preserved in a major Vienna numismatic project offer an unusually detailed view of the rulers who controlled parts of Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India between Late Antiquity and the early medieval period. The digital catalogue, created for the exhibition The Coins of the Huns and Western Turks in Central Asia and…
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Bronze Age ‘Mega-Settlement’ on the Kazakh Steppe Challenges Old Narratives of Early Urbanism
A sweeping archaeological survey on the northern Kazakh Steppe has revealed one of the most extensive Bronze Age settlements ever documented in Central Asia — a discovery that forces scholars to reassess how and where early urban life first emerged across Eurasia. The site, known as Semiyarka, sprawls across an unexpectedly large area of the…