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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 ...
The world’s first nomadic empire – which battled imperial China for centuries – was very genetically diverse and not the “simple body” of people that its Han Chinese rivals long claimed, according to ...
A bird's eye view of the Xiongnu Museum in Hohhot, capital city of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on August 5. The first museum on Xiongnu, otherwise known as the Hun tribes, opened ...
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, ...
Introduction: State of Research and Future Directions of Xiongnu Studies / Ursula Brosseder, Bryan K. Miller -- Concepts of the polity -- Ethnogenesis, coevolution and political morphology of the ...
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Ancient DNA reveals mysterious origins of the Huns who sacked Rome
The origin of the Huns in fourth-century Europe has long been debated, but centuries-old DNA has revealed their diverse backgrounds.
Warrior nomads in Mongolia called the Xiongnu had a taste for the finer things in life, particularly gold jewelry, which they wore to their graves. Archeologists have wondered whether the gold objects ...
BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- The ruins of an ancient tripartite-city, known as Sanlian City, in midwest Mongolia's Khermental City, demonstrates that the Xiongnu tribe used to perform religious ...
A ceremony is held for the opening of the world's first Xiongnu museum in Hohhot, capital city of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on August 5. [Photo/provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The ...
A ceremony is held for the opening of the world's first Xiongnu museum in Hohhot, capital city of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on August 5. [Photo/provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The ...
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