An international team of scientists have completed a genetic investigation of two cemeteries along the western frontier of the Xiongnu empire in what’s now Mongolia: an aristocratic elite ...

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealing direct links between the Huns and the Xiongnu Empire of ancient Mongolia. The international research team ...

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 ...

The Xiongnu Empire at its greatest extent during the 1st century CE. Credit: World Atlas.© ZME Science A gold crown belonging to a Xiongnu king, from the early Xiongnu period.

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 ...

Citations L. Zhou et al. Strontium isotope analysis of the Xiongnu nobles and their followers in Central Mongolia. Archaeological Research in Asia. Vol. 34, June 2023, 100446. doi: 10.1016/j.ara ...

From the late Bronze Age until the Middle Ages, the eastern Eurasian Steppe was home to a series of organized and highly influential nomadic empires. The Xiongnu (209 BCE -- 98 CE) and Mongol (916 ...

Object Details Author International Conference on Xiongnu Archaeology (2008 : Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) Brosseder, Ursula Miller, Bryan Kristopher Universität Bonn Institut für Vor- und ...

A multidisciplinary and international research project has brought fresh insights into the origins and diversity of the populations that lived under and after the Hun empire between the late 4th ...

The first museum on Xiongnu, otherwise known as the Hun tribes, opened in Hohhot, capital city of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on August 5.