Research led by Jilin University, China, is providing bioarchaeological evidence on a mass grave at the Bayanbulag site in ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Genetic analysis of skeletons in a mass grave in Mongolia has revealed they were soldiers in the Han-Xiongnu Wars more than two millennia ago.

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.

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 ...