"Dismemberment was considered in Han culture the most humiliating way to die. Execution by dismemberment was the most ...

A team of researchers analyzing a 2,100-year-old burial pit in Mongolia has uncovered new details about the fate of Han ...

Archaeologists in Mongolia have uncovered a mass grave of Han warriors who fought against the Xiongnu over 2,000 years ago.

An ancient mass grave excavated in southern Mongolia contains the bodies of dismembered Han warriors who fought the nomadic Xiongnu people in the second century B.C., a chemical analysis reveals.

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 ...

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 ...

Excavation of the Xiongnu Elite Tomb 64 containing a high status aristocratic woman at the site of Takhiltiin Khotgor, Mongolian Altai. The image may only be used in connection with reporting on ...

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.

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, ...

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.

Archaeological excavation at the Shombuuziin Belchir Xiongnu cemetery, Mongolian Altai. The image may only be used in connection with reporting on the article/research by Juhyeon Lee et al. (2023).