The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

These four cruel rulers ruled from Mongol, Hungary, Syria to Britain. Attila the Hun, known as the ‘Scourge of God’, ruled the Hun Empire from ... as the main religion (after previous rulers ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.

On the 'Golden Eagle' train in Central Asia, writer Maggie Shipstead follows the historic Silk Road and witnesses, in some ...

Known as the Taghbach, this group migrated south from the Mongolian ... the Northern Wei empire, both Taghbah and Chinese cultures had become deeply familiar with Buddhism, a religion that they ...

They were allowed to practice their religions in peace and were subject ... the successors of the mighty Mongol Empire. As ...