The Huns were nomadic horse warriors, originally from Asia, who invaded Europe in the late fourth century A.D. and carved out an empire that stretched from Asia to Europe.

Recent DNA analysis from excavations in China, Central Asia, and Hungary has uncovered the origins of the marauding Huns who ...

Bearing the inscription “Seal of the King of the Dian Kingdom”, the artifact stands as compelling evidence of the ancient Dian Kingdom’s existence, a regional state that thrived more than 2,000 years ...

A new linguistic study has revealed that the European Huns, including their famous leader Attila, were not Turkic in origin as once believed, but instead spoke an ancient Siberian language. This ...

Their findings now clearly prove that as early as 109 BC, Emperor Wu of Han sent a general south to Yunnan, establishing the ...

It was therefore assumed that the Xiongnu and the ethnic core of the Huns, whose own westward expansion dates back to the fourth century CE, also spoke a Turkic language.

Published in the journal Transactions of the Philological Society, the study demonstrates through a careful analysis of diverse linguistic sources that both the Huns and their Asian predecessors, the ...

New linguistic findings show that the European Huns had Paleo-Siberian ancestors and do not, as previously assumed, originate from Turkic-speaking groups. The joint study was conducted by Dr ...

It was therefore assumed that the Xiongnu and the ethnic core of the Huns, whose own westward expansion dates back to the fourth century CE, also spoke a Turkic language.

Passage to history Hexi Corridor connected China to the world and provided a route for culture and commerce, Zhao Xu and Ma Jingna report.

The Emperor of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, shares a fateful bond with Modu Zhun, who was once a hostage of the Xiongnu, a powerful tribal confederation that once ruled the Mongolian steppes. In his ...

However, the Xiongnu descendants are a small minority among the Huns buried in Hungary, as most of these skeletons carry little Asian genetic material.