Recent DNA analysis from excavations in China, Central Asia, and Hungary has uncovered the origins of the marauding Huns who ...

Their findings, published in the journal Transactions of the Philological Society, suggest that both the European Huns and their Asian ancestors—the Xiongnu—spoke a now nearly extinct language ...

New linguistic analysis by researchers including Dr Simon Fries , Researcher in Comparative Philology in the Faculty of Classics and Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics , University of ...

It was therefore assumed that the Xiongnu and the ethnic core of the Huns, whose own westward expansion dates back to the fourth century CE, also spoke a Turkic language.

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 ...

It was therefore assumed that the Xiongnu and the ethnic core of the Huns, whose own westward expansion dates back to the fourth century CE, also spoke a Turkic language.

Their art shaped the decorative traditions of later nomadic empires, from the Xiongnu to the Huns to the Turks.

Supported by the Xiongnu, the Wusun attacked the Rouzhi, and drove them out of the Ili River basin. The Qiang originally lived along the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River.

Archaeologists digging in Bayanbulag, Mongolia found a burial pit filled with Han warriors who were killed and dismembered 2,100 years ago.

Passage to history Hexi Corridor connected China to the world and provided a route for culture and commerce, Zhao Xu and Ma Jingna report.

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