Recent DNA analysis from remains excavated at sites in Hungary's Carpathian Basin has cracked open the mystery of the origins ...

Long before the Mongol Empire arose, Asia’s first nomadic empire, horse-riding Xiongnu people, conquered ethnic groups across the continent’s northeastern and central expanses (SN: 1/29/10).

While today they may be overshadowed by the Mongol Empire, the Xiongnu appeared on the Mongolian steppe 1,500 years earlier, according to a study published on Friday in the journal Science Advances.

The Xiongnu, contemporaries of Rome and Egypt, built their nomadic empire on the Mongolian steppe 2,000 years ago, emerging as Imperial China's greatest rival and even inspiring the construction ...

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.

The Xiongnu Museum in Hohhot, China exhibits a large number of Xiongnu cultural relics. The National Museum of Korea features a collection of metal tools, jewellery, beads and other items.

The Xiongnu empire arose on the Mongolian steppe around 2,500 years ago, which is about 1,500 years before the Mongols. These historically enigmatic people were one of the most powerful Iron Age ...

The Xiongnu may have been among the ancestors of the Mongols. Their empire spanned from present-day Kazakhstan to Mongolia. Not much is known about them aside from some Chinese historical records ...

More likely, the collapse of the Xiongnu Empire in the first century caused its elites to disperse. “Some stay, some were pushed out, some find new opportunities,” Brosseder tells Science.