peoples & empires library

Ancient Asia boasted a multitude of nations and cultures. Read your way across Asia by exploring the Ancient Asian Peoples and Empires.

Featured Article: Aryans

Aryans, a name given to a large group of ancient peoples of Asia. The name more correctly applies only to a few tribes who spoke an Indo-European language and called themselves aryas ("noble ones"). See more »

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Nabataeans

Nabataeans, an ancient Semitic people who lived in what is now Jordan. Between 200 B.C.

Philistines

Philistines, an ancient people who were hereditary foes of the Israelites in Canaan.

Sardis

Sardis, or Sardes, a city of ancient and medieval Asia Minor. It was established about 2600 B.C.

Scythians

Scythians, an ancient people of Asia and Europe. They were mounted nomadic herdsmen, of the Indo-European language family, who ranged from the Altai Mountains to the Hungarian plain in pre-Christian times.