Scientists have discovered a genetic link between the Huns who ravaged Europe in the latter years of the Western Roman Empire and the Xiongnu confederacy that lived on the Mongolian steppe before ...

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealing direct links between the Huns and the Xiongnu Empire of ancient Mongolia. The international research team ...

Some believed they descended from the Xiongnu, a powerful empire in Mongolia, due to similarities in weapons and cultural practices. However, new genetic research solved the mystery of the Huns’ ...

Skull of a woman with skull modification found in a Hun-era burial in Pusztataskony, Hungary, that can be directly linked to Xiongnu elite burials from Mongolia. | Credit: Tamás Hajdu, ...

One dominant theory about Hunnic origin posits that the equestrian warriors originated in what is now Mongolia, during the Xiongnu Empire. They then swept westward toward Europe, pivoted south through ...

Scholars have long debated whether the Huns were descended from the Xiongnu. In fact, the Xiongnu Empire dissolved around 100 CE, leaving a 300-year gap before the Huns appeared in Europe.

Scholars have long debated whether the Huns were descended from the Xiongnu. In fact, the Xiongnu Empire dissolved around 100 CE, leaving a 300-year gap before the Huns appeared in Europe.

Were they descendants of the Xiongnu, the nomadic empire that once dominated the Mongolian steppe centuries earlier? Or were they a completely different group, their origins lost to time?

Additionally, two Xiongnu individuals buried in high-status graves were found to be the direct ancestors of several Hun-period individuals — evidence of a genetic link between the two groups ...

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