Nomadic warriors and herders known as the Huns are described in historical accounts as having instigated the fifth century fall of the Roman Empire under Attila’s leadership. But the invaders weren’t ...
A group of warriors called the Huns began infiltrating the borders of the Roman Empire in the late 4th century. Within a few decades, they fought the Romans in a battle led by king Attila in what is ...
The origin of the European Huns, a nomadic group that helped topple the Roman Empire, has been shrouded in mystery — until now. A new study of ancient DNA from fifth- to sixth-century Hun skeletons ...
To hear the Romans tell it, the arrival of Huns at the empire's border was an unmitigated catastrophe. "The Huns in multitude break forth with might and wrath ... spreading dismay and loss," read a ...
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. Svenja ...
Scientists have discovered a genetic link between the Huns who ravaged Europe in the latter years of the Western Roman Empire and the Xiongnu confederacy that lived on the Mongolian steppe before ...
This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Everybody may know the name “Attila the Hun,” but nobody knows where he’s buried. Finding him would be ...
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