What makes one a Hun and where did the Huns come from? Historians have long argued these questions about the fierce nomadic fighters who contributed to the fall of the Roman empire and the ...

In the late 4th century, a powerful nomadic force emerged in Europe, upending the region's political and social order. The Huns, once an unknown entity to the Roman world, arrived north of the Black ...

The Huns burst into Europe in the 370s AD, establishing a short-lived but influential empire. For years, historians have debated whether the Huns were direct descendants of the Xiongnu Empire. Since ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Excavation photo of the Hun-period “eastern-type” burial from Budapest, Népfürdő Street (Hungary). (Credit: © Boglárka Mészáros, BHM Aquincum Museum) What ...