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.

Researchers found that the group led by Attila the Hun contained a mixture of diverse ancestries, with at least a few related ...

The following year, Attila dies. After his death, the Hun Empire quickly disintegrates. Odoacer, a German warrior possibly of Sciri origins, becomes king of Italy, deposing the emperor on September 4.

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 Huns had been practicing elongation of children’s skulls for years, as a way to unify their people. They also required those they conquered, including the crumbling Roman Empire, to do the ...