New linguistic findings show that the European Huns had Paleo-Siberian ancestors and do not, as previously assumed, originate ...

A recent linguistic study jointly conducted by Dr. Svenja Bonmann from the Department of Linguistics at the University of ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

In the late fourth century, a group of warriors began encroaching upon the borders of the Roman Empire. They were the Huns, and within a few decades—led by the notorious king Attila—they ...

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 ...

The Xiongnu Empire had dissolved around 100 CE, leaving a 300-year gap before the appearance of the Huns in Europe. A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

Through cutting-edge archaeogenetic analysis combined with archaeological and historical studies, the research has established direct links between some individuals from the Hun period in Europe and ...

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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? To address this ...

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 ...

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 ...