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Noin-Ula Xiongnu carpet (Magic Mushroom scene) 1st C. BCE - 1st C. CE

Hauma-drinking Scythian on western stairway of Palace of Darius 6th-5th C. BCE

Han tomb relief depicting wars between Han soldiers and Xiongnu horse archers 2nd C. BCE - 1st C. CE

Map of Xiongnu and Han Empires (and their neighbors) 160 BCE

Saka Scythian soldier, as defeated enemy of the Yuezhi, from Khalchayan 1st C. BCE

Head of a Yuezhi prince (Khalchayan palace, Uzbekistan) 1st century BCE

Ordos bronze 'Copulating Tigers' plaque 5th-3rd C. BCE

Han Empress Lu Zhi (241-180 BCE) unknown artist/date

Xiongnu elite woman's headdress from Xigoupan (grave 4) 2nd C. BCE

Bronze plaque of a man (possibly Xiongnu) from Troitskovavsk

Xiongnu horsemen with Chinese captives, Sino-Hun War by unknown artist

A Han heqin bride by Zuo Guoshun

Modu Chanyu and his horde besieging a Chinese city by unknown artist

Ordos bronze plaque of a panther 6th-2nd C. BCE

Emperor Gaozu of Han (aka Liu Bang)

Uprisings of the Qin Dynasty 209-208 BCE

Man from Ordos (bronze figurine) 3rd-1st C. BCE

Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China (259-210 BCE)