The origin of the European Huns, a nomadic group that helped topple the Roman Empire, has been shrouded in mystery — until now. A new study of ancient DNA from fifth- to sixth-century Hun skeletons ...

The Huns’ invasions forced the Roman Empire to retreat ... She was buried with gold earrings in the early fifth century. “She is one of the individuals with genetic lineages descending from the ...

City SackersThe Huns used both artillery and assault towers to begin their attacks on walled cities. Below, a fifth-century wooden carving shows a relief of a city being defended from a barbarian ...

a 3rd-4th century site in Kazakhstan and 5th-6th century contexts in the Carpathian Basin, including exceptional Hun-period burials that exhibit Eastern or “steppe” traits often linked to nomadic ...

Scientists have discovered a genetic link between the Huns who ravaged Europe in the ... suddenly appeared in Europe in the late fourth century displacing a number of Germanic tribes including ...

One intriguing skeleton, however, is a 35- to 50-year-old Hun woman with an elongated skull who was buried with gold earrings at the site of Pusztataskony in Hungary in the first half of the fifth ...

The Huns’ invasions forced the Roman Empire ... A gold animal figurine found in Árpás, Hungary, in a fifth-century Eastern-type burial Rómer Flóris, Museum of Art and History Several of ...