Known as the Xiongnu, the empire saw conflict with great rival imperial China that resulted in the construction of the Great Wall, parts of which still stand today.

A new linguistic study has revealed that the European Huns, including their famous leader Attila, were not Turkic in origin as once believed, but instead spoke an ancient Siberian language. This ...

Their remains, found at the Bayanbulag site, paint a complex picture of war, migration, and possible execution during the Han ...

A linguistic study proves that the European Huns and their Asian ancestors spoke the same Palaeo-Siberian language. This ...

The Xiongnu Empire had dissolved around 100 CE, leaving a 300-year gap before the appearance of the Huns in Europe.

Their findings did not match their expectations. Only a small group of Hun-period individual genomes shared key genetic markers of late Xiongnu Empire leaders. “It came as a surprise,” Guido Alberto ...

However, the Xiongnu descendants are a small minority among the Huns buried in Hungary, as most of these skeletons carry little Asian genetic material.

In fact, the Xiongnu Empire dissolved around 100 CE, leaving a 300-year gap before the Huns appeared in Europe. Can DNA lineages that bridge these three centuries be found?

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, ...

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 ...

It was therefore assumed that the Xiongnu and the ethnic core of the Huns, whose own westward expansion dates back to the fourth century CE, also spoke a Turkic language.