Recent DNA analysis from excavations in China, Central Asia, and Hungary has uncovered the origins of the marauding Huns who swept across Eurasian steppes into Europe in the days of the Roman Empire.

More likely, the collapse of the Xiongnu Empire in the first century caused its elites to disperse. “Some stay, some were pushed out, some find new opportunities,” Brosseder tells Science.

A multidisciplinary and international research project has brought fresh insights into the origins and diversity of the populations that lived under and after the Hun empire between the late 4th ...

New linguistic findings show that the European Huns had Paleo-Siberian ancestors and do not, as previously assumed, originate from Turkic-speaking groups. The joint study was conducted by Dr ...

A linguistic study proves that the European Huns and their Asian ancestors spoke the same Palaeo-Siberian language. This result refutes the previously assumed Turkish origin of the Huns ...

The Han-Xiongnu Wars were fought over the course of two centuries (133 B.C. to A.D. 89). Battles between the Chinese civilization and the nomadic Xiongnu erupted on the Mongolian Plateau, ...

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Even though the Xiongnu descendants were a small minority, the researchers were particularly intrigued by their burials. Several of the Huns turned out to be directly related to two high-status ...