She was buried with gold earrings in the early fifth century. “She is one of the individuals with genetic lineages descending ...

These women rested in wooden coffins placed in square tombs. Items found in these tombs included gold sun and moon emblems of Xiongnu imperial power, glass beads, silk clothes and Chinese mirrors.

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. However, with no written ...

The lavish gold plaques portray "the crowned sovereign ... of Central Asia may have originated as an ethnic group under the Xiongnu, who ruled the eastern Eurasian Steppe from about the second ...

With no cities or courts, the formidable and nomadic Xiongnu kingdom sent princess emissaries to control its frontiers. The raiders came from the north. They came on horseback, the skilled bowmen ...

Painstaking archaeological research and new DNA evidence has revealed fascinating insights into the Xiongnu empire, the world’s first nomadic imperial power. The research not only shows how ...

While the ancient world may have been filled with images of men in brutal battle scenes, archaeologists have found that some powerful communities, such as the Xiongnu people, have proven that this ...

An ancient mass grave excavated in southern Mongolia contains the bodies of dismembered Han warriors who fought the nomadic Xiongnu people in the second century B.C., a chemical analysis reveals.

Additionally, two Xiongnu individuals buried in high-status ... 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 ...