What's in a name? Hun and Boche. The origin of the French term commonly used as an insult to the Germans during the First World War dates back to shortly after the 1870 Franco-Prussian war.

But most of these descriptions don't come from firsthand accounts — more often Roman elites — and attempts to paint the Huns as subhuman may have been politically motivated.

A Hun-period “Eastern-type” burial unearthed in Budapest, Hungary Boglárka Mészáros, BHM Aquincum Museum In the late fourth century, a group of warriors began encroaching upon the borders ...

The Huns conquered much of Europe in the 4th and 5th centuries AD but vanished from the history books after the death of their leader, Attila. Some 2,500 people identified themselves as Huns on a ...

In a study published Monday (Feb. 24) in the journal PNAS, researchers looked at the genomes of 370 skeletons to investigate links between European Huns of the fourth and fifth centuries and ...