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 ...

The Xiongnu Empire had dissolved around 100 CE, leaving a 300-year gap before the appearance of the Huns in Europe. advertisement. The Jerusalem Post.

A link between the Huns and Xiongnu was long suspected and now scientists say DNA evidence links the two empires across the centuries Scientists have discovered a genetic link between the Huns who ...

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.

The Han-Xiongnu Wars were fought over the course of two centuries (133 B.C. to A.D. 89). ... 17,000 years ago, a man died in a projectile weapon attack in what is now Italy.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Excavation of the Xiongnu Elite Tomb 64 containing a high status aristocratic woman at the site of Takhiltiin Khotgor, Mongolian Altai. The image may only be used in connection with reporting on ...

Scholars have long debated whether the Huns were descended from the Xiongnu. The Huns suddenly appeared in Europe in the 370s, establishing one of the most influential although short-lived empires ...