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New DNA evidence links European Huns to Xiongnu Empire elite - MSNThe Xiongnu Empire had dissolved around 100 CE, leaving a 300-year gap before the appearance of the Huns in Europe. advertisement. The Jerusalem Post.
Ancient DNA, combined with the fruits of recent archaeological digs, is spilling the secrets of one of the ancient world’s most powerful political forces.
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 ...
Even though the Xiongnu descendants were a small minority, the researchers were particularly intrigued by their burials. Several of the Huns turned out to be directly related to two high-status ...
The Xiongnu, contemporaries of Rome and Egypt, built their nomadic empire on the Mongolian steppe 2,000 years ago, emerging as Imperial China's greatest rival and even inspiring the construction ...
New linguistic findings show that the European Huns had Paleo-Siberian ancestors and do not, as previously assumed, originate from Turkic-speaking groups. The joint study was conducted by Dr ...
The Xiongnu (209 BCE -- 98 CE) and Mongol (916-1125 CE) empires that bookend this period had especially large impacts on the demographics and geopolitics of Eurasia, but due to a lack of large ...
The Xiongnu did not have a written history, except for what Han Dynasty chroniclers and other outsiders jotted down. To study them, researchers instead examined both an aristocratic elite cemetery at ...
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