The Xiongnu Empire had dissolved around 100 CE, leaving a 300-year gap before the appearance of the Huns in Europe. The study, part of the multi-year HistoGenes project funded by the European Research ...
The Huns suddenly appeared in Europe in the 370s, establishing one of the most influential although short-lived empires in Europe. Scholars have long debated whether the Huns were descended from the ...
The Huns suddenly appeared in Europe in the 370s, establishing one of the most influential although short-lived empires in Europe. Scholars have long debated whether the Huns were descended from the ...
What makes one a Hun and where did the Huns come from? Historians have long argued these questions about the fierce nomadic fighters who contributed to the fall of the Roman empire and the beginning ...
In an age that spawned the ancient Roman and Egyptian empires, Mongolia’s Xiongnu Empire broke the rules of imperial expansion. Long before the Mongol Empire arose, Asia’s first nomadic empire, ...
In the late 4th century, Europe’s political landscape changed dramatically with the sudden arrival of a fierce nomadic power. Emerging from the steppes, the Huns stormed into regions north of the ...
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 ...
Excavation photo of the Hun-period "eastern-type" burial from Budapest, Népfürdő Street (Hungary). Credit: Boglárka Mészáros, BHM Aquincum Museum Excavation photo of the Hun-period "eastern-type" ...