Ancient genomes reveal trans-Eurasian connections between the European Huns and the Xiongnu Empire. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2025; 122 (9) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2418485122 ...

In the late 4th century, a powerful nomadic force emerged in Europe, upending the region's political and social order. The ...

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.

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 beginning ...

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. Can DNA ...

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.

An innovative multidisciplinary and international research project has shed new light on the origin and diversity of the populations that inhabited Central Europe between the late 4th and 6th ...

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 ...

Hun Hun is the grandson of business tycoon Lucio Tan Sr. —the billionaire nicknamed "El Kapitan" by staff and employees— who ...

Researchers found that the group led by Attila the Hun contained a mixture of diverse ancestries, with at least a few related to elites of the Xiongnu Empire ...

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 ...