Known as the Xiongnu, the empire saw conflict with great rival imperial China that resulted in the construction of the Great Wall, parts of which still stand today.

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

With the help of elite women, the Xiongnu, one of the first nomadic empires in the eastern Eurasian Steppe, was able to control a vast region of Central Asia from about the second century B.C. to ...

Xiongnu herders in what’s now Mongolia, portrayed in this painting, followed their own rules in building a multiethnic empire and advancing iron-making technology starting around 2,200 years ago ...

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

The Xiongnu were a group of nomadic tribes that became the dominant empire on the steppes during the 2nd century BC and whose evolution may have given rise to some of the groups that were later better ...

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

The Han-Xiongnu Wars were fought over the course of two centuries (133 B.C. to A.D. 89). Battles between the Chinese civilization and the nomadic Xiongnu erupted on the Mongolian Plateau, ...

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?

A linguistic study proves that the European Huns and their Asian ancestors spoke the same Palaeo-Siberian language. This ...